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From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Shirley Shi <shirley@kasenna.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: All filesystems hang under long periods of heavy load (read and write) on a filesystem
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 08:33:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031104073359.GB15243@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FA6E8CE.6040208@kasenna.com>

On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 03:46:22PM -0800, Shirley Shi wrote:
> Can anyone know why all filesystems hang under periods of heavy load on 
> one of the filesystem? Once the filesystems hang, any command related to 
> the filesystem, like 'ls', 'cat',etc., will stick forever until re-power 
> cycling the machine.

I suggest you figure out what your systems have in common, if this were
universal people would've noticed by now. If you have such a hang again, can
you show us the output of 'dmesg' and 'ps aux'? If at all possible, can you
run ShowTasks from the magic SysRQ menu?

Good luck!


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  reply	other threads:[~2003-11-04  7:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-03 23:46 Shirley Shi
2003-11-04  7:33 ` bert hubert [this message]
2003-11-04  9:28 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2003-11-04 15:52 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-12-23 18:01 Ged Haywood
2003-12-29 15:32 ` Ged Haywood
2003-12-29 19:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-31 17:26   ` Ged Haywood

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