2.1.115: BAD problem with quotas

Carlos Carvalho (carlos@fisica.ufpr.br)
Mon, 10 Aug 1998 21:39:43 -0300

Our server is crashing every 15min with a strange problem: anything
that accesses disk gets stalled. Consequently, the load average starts
to climb until the machine gets completely stuck. The kernel still
responds, but root cannot log in nor give any command. I'm obliged to
hard-rest it :-(

This is apparently due to quotas. Disabling them makes the problem
disappear. The last crash happened as soon as I gave the command
edquota -p <prototype> user1 user2.

I've seen a few fixes for dquot/free, and they're applied in .115, but
it looks like there's more to it :-(

I'm willing to try debugging patches.

Carlos

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu
Please read the FAQ at http://www.altern.org/andrebalsa/doc/lkml-faq.html