I'd agree with Eric that DMAPI could be causing you a problem. I don't have it on in general. On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 16:45, Nathan Poznick wrote: > Thus spake Austin Gonyou: > > Could you see if my XFS-AA patch does anything for you? There are > > changes to bdflush in it and I'd be interested to see if they go away. > > > > > http://www.digitalroadkill.net/Patches/2.4.17-xfs-aa.patch.bz2 > > Unfortunately I can't really do to much messing around with this > machine right now, it's being used pretty heavily. Even after bdflush > died and I needed to bounce the machine, I just about had to beat the > developers off the machine with a stick. :-) > > Eric Sandeen suggested turning off DMAPI support, so I'm going to give > that a try first. I'll go ahead and grab a copy of your patch, and > give it a try if the problem still resurfaces. > > -- > Nathan Poznick > PGP Key: http://drunkmonkey.org/pgpkey.txt > > Boss: You forgot to assign the result of your map! > Hacker: Dang, I'm always forgetting my assignations... > Boss: And what's that "goto" doing there?!? > Hacker: Er, I guess my finger slipped when I was typing > "getservbyport"... > Boss: Ah well, accidents will happen. Maybe we should have picked > APL. > -- Larry Wall -- Austin Gonyou Systems Architect, CCNA Coremetrics, Inc. Phone: 512-698-7250 email: austin@coremetrics.com "It is the part of a good shepherd to shear his flock, not to skin it." Latin Proverb