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

From: Stephen Rothwell
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 22:26:20 EST


On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 14:17:17 +1100 Stephen Rothwell <sfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:00:06PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> >
> > Could you try with the attached 4 patches? Two of them are expected to
> > fix your problem, another two are debugging ones(in case the problem
> > persists).
>
> Applying these four patches fixes it for me. Obviously the reiserfs patch
> was not relevant in my case (only using ext3).

I am now running on a kernel with just the
mm-speed-up-writeback-ramp-up-on-clean-systems.patch applied and I am
seeing no hangs.

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

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