linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state on startup

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Message-Id: <20071107142453.4379532e.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:24:53 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	David <david@...olicited.net>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state on
 startup

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:46:26 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au> wrote:
>
> I am seeing something very similar on a PowerPC machine where copying a
> file from an LVM volume with ext3 on it to a simple scsi partition (again
> ext3) on the same disk will hang in congestion_wait.  If I am patient
> enough, the copy makes very slow progress.  A kill -9 will kill it
> eventually, but a simple control-C will not.

Turns out a simple control-C would kill the copy, I was just not patient
enough :-)

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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