linux-kernel - Re: stuck tcp connections 2.6.26-rc7

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Message-Id: <20080625.152447.178284093.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 25 Jun 2008 15:24:47 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ray-lk@...rabbit.org
Cc:	justinmattock@...il.com, didier@...oud.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: stuck tcp connections 2.6.26-rc7

From: "Ray Lee" <ray-lk@...rabbit.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:16:20 -0700

> On my system, I've noticed that the flashplugin can manage to starve
> other processes in a pure scheduler sort of way, so you might try
> running latencytop to see if there's some sort of issue there. OTOH,
> I've noticed firefox itself hang for 3-15 seconds in the middle of a
> read (just as you describe), with nothing else going on in the system,
> so <shrug>. I've been blaming firefox, but I could be wrong.

See if firefox is stuck in disk wait when things get wedged like
this.
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