Re: PROBLEM: Hardlock with 2.6.1[678] on Abit AI7, ICH5 + XFS, SATA under heavy I/O load

[David Chinner]

On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:28:35PM -0700, Steve Hindle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  My machine is hardlocking with recent kernels (including 2.6.18-mm3)
> under heavy I/O load (for instance, just compiling the kernel is
> enough to lock the machine).  No bug,oops,or panic and nothing in the
> system logs.

Does it happen on any other filesystems? Is this your root filesystem
that is hanging?

> Hasn't seemed to cause any fs corruption (which strikes
> me as odd, since its generally writing files when it hangs..)

Journalling filesystems shouldn't get corrupted by hangs or
crashes...

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
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