Re: BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! in sys_close and ext3

[CaT]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 02:01:25AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It did for me in all cases. Should it be taking long enough to trigger
> > the softlock timeout to do this? The size of the device is approx 280gig.
> 
> It's a bit of a worry if it's taking all that time to shoot down 4g of
> pagecache.  The 280G will affect things - the radix-tree will be sparse and
> the invalidate has firther to walk.  But still...

Yeah. I would've thought that legitimate usage would not trigger such
things, which is why I have it on whilst I'm building this box up.

> I assume that a fsck does the same thing?

Just did an e2fsck and it did the same thing.

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