linux-kernel - Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

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Message-ID: <20071101141414.GZ25561@iucha.net>
Date:	Thu, 1 Nov 2007 09:14:14 -0500
From:	Florin Iucha <florin@...ha.net>
To:	Fengguang Wu <wfg@...l.ustc.edu.cn>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: pdflush stuck in D state with v2.6.24-rc1-192-gef49c32

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 09:03:33PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> Or will the system or fs size/age make any difference? If you happen
> to have a spare/swap partition, could you make a new reiserfs and
> mount it and copy several less-than-4KB files into it and wait for 30s
> and see what happen to pdflush?

I will try that with a USB disk - I hope that won't make a difference.

> btw, what's the exact kernel version you are running?

I noticed it with the kernel in the $SUBJECT, as reported by 'git
describe'.  I have pulled in new changesets since then.

florin

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