linux-kernel - Re: [2.6.24-rc] pdflush stuck in D state

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Message-ID: <OFFB5CFA23.0234652C-ON8025739B.005A23C3-8025739B.005A7B5B@sophos.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:28:22 +0000
From:	tvrtko.ursulin@...hos.com
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.24-rc] pdflush stuck in D state

linux-kernel-owner@...r.kernel.org wrote on 22/11/2007 16:34:01:

> On Thursday, 22 of November 2007, Tvrtko A. Ursulin wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > So as the subject says - pdflush is stuck i D state which means 
> constant load 
> > average of at least one:
> > 
> > root       151  0.0  0.0      0     0 ?        D    Nov20   0:33 
[pdflush]
> 
> Hm, this is supposed to be fixed.  Please see:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9323

Doesn't look like the same bug to me - I have only ever seen pdflush get 
stuck in D, not random processes.

Also, I can confirm that -rc3 I am running contains the patch referenced 
in your bugzilla link above.

Tvrtko


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