Re: 2.6.24-rc1 - Regularly getting processes stuck in D state onstartup

[Stephen Rothwell]

On Tue, 6 Nov 2007 17:46:26 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I am seeing something very similar on a PowerPC machine where copying a
> file from an LVM volume with ext3 on it to a simple scsi partition (again
> ext3) on the same disk will hang in congestion_wait.  If I am patient
> enough, the copy makes very slow progress.  A kill -9 will kill it
> eventually, but a simple control-C will not.

Turns out a simple control-C would kill the copy, I was just not patient
enough :-)

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Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/

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