linux-kernel - Re: Sudden "hangs"....

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Message-ID: <20100917164723.GA13770@animx.eu.org>
Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:47:23 -0400
From:	Wakko Warner <wakko@...mx.eu.org>
To:	Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@...Wizard.nl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Sudden "hangs"....

Rogier Wolff wrote:
> It seems my home workstation hangs on a "mkdir" once every morning for
> about half a minute. It'll freeze whatever I'm doing and continue
> happily 30 seconds later, but I can't figure out what's going on
> because it's frozen...

One of my volumes was doing this.  As someone mentioned earlier, check your
kernel log to see if you have a disk error.  On mine, I had no errors.  The
activity led for that volume would be on solid until the mkdir completed. 
My fix was to create a new directory and move everything over and remove the
old directory.  Obviously this won't work if you're having problems with
more than 1 directory or the offending directory is the root of the volume.

Just for information, this volume I have is on a single disk created on the
whole disk (no lvm nor partition).

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