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From: Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net>
To: Greg Stark <gsstark@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: More tests [Was: Problem with read blocking for a long time on /dev/scd1]
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 05:03:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030108040303.GE3960@unthought.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87n0mxt8md.fsf@stark.dyndns.tv>

On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 03:58:02AM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> Jakob Oestergaard <jakob@unthought.net> writes:
> 
...
> When your process is blocked, what wait channel does ps -elf list for it?
> What system call does strace -T show it executing and for how long?

On the NFS server, knfsd and kupdated will block on "wait_on_b" (WCHAN
in top).

I guess an strace on the NFS client would just show the process waiting
in some open/read/write/close code, waiting for NFS/RPC. Not much good.

The hangs last for approximately 5 seconds, sometimes around 10.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-21  0:49 Problem with read blocking for a long time on /dev/scd1 Gregory Stark
2002-12-21  1:28 ` Greg Stark
2002-12-21  6:14 ` Greg Stark
2002-12-22 16:13   ` More tests [Was: Problem with read blocking for a long time on /dev/scd1] Greg Stark
2002-12-22 20:13     ` Jakob Oestergaard
2002-12-23  8:58       ` Greg Stark
2002-12-27 15:36         ` Jakob Oestergaard
2003-01-08  4:03         ` Jakob Oestergaard [this message]
2002-12-23 18:02 ` Problem with read blocking for a long time on /dev/scd1 Krzysztof Halasa
2003-01-08 12:03 More tests [Was: Problem with read blocking for a long time on /dev/scd1] Andrey Borzenkov

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