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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0702051118230.30521@jdi.jdi-ict.nl>
Date:	Mon, 5 Feb 2007 11:24:30 +0100 (CET)
From:	Igmar Palsenberg <i.palsenberg@...-ict.nl>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, npiggin@...e.de,
	erich <erich@...ca.com.tw>
Subject: Re: 2.6.16.32 stuck in generic_file_aio_write()


> Does the other machine have the same problems?

It does. It seems to depend on the interrupt frequency : Setting KERNEL_HZ=250
makes it ony appear once a month or so, with KERNEL_HZ=1000, it will 
occur within a week. It does happen a lot less with the other machine, 
which isn't under disk activity load as much as the other machine.
 
> Are you able to rule out a hardware failure?

Well.. It's too much coincidence that 2 (almost identical) machines show 
the same weard behaviour. What strikes me that only *disk* interrupts 
after a while don't get handled. The machine itself is alive, just all 
disk IO is blocked, which makes it pretty much useless. 

Erich, could this be some sort of hardware problem ? I know it's a PITA to 
reproduce, but setting CONFIG_HZ to 1000 and bashing the machine with 
diskactivity seems to help :)


Regards,


	Igmar

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