Re: [2.6.0-test5-bk13] SIGSTOPping tar extraction process causesother I/O processes to block

[Andrew Morton]

Simon Kirby <sim@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I was extracting a large tarball of 2 MB image files and running and
> apt-get remove at the same time, realized the disk was thrashing back
> and forth, and decided to suspend the tar process until the apt-get was
> finished.  When I suspended the tar, apt-get never finished.  Right-alt
> SysRQ (SysRQ-T) dumped the following traces for the processes in
> question:

If you still have the full sysrq trace, please send it along.  Need to know
what kjournald was up to..
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