Here are some more inputs;
from ps -lwa | grep sync
0 500 10456 751 0 0 1020 324 wait_on_dqu D ? 0:00 sync
where wait_on_dqu = 'c0133151' when using ps -lwan
It does not only takes time, but really Died!
I'v upgraded my fileutils to 4.0 from 3.16 and still the same,
I also reompiled it (synce I'm using glibc2.1 and still the same.
Most often it "freeze" thoe whole gnome interface and keyboard/mouse, only way out is to telnet in and then "shutdown -r -n now", then wait few seconds and then press "reset" or turn off the machine, and sometime "unplug" from the wall (ATX power supply).
Is there any way I can try to trace it so I can give you more info?
Thanks
Andre
On Mon, 19 April 1999, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 08:51:14PM +0200, Andre Couture wrote:
>
> > It "hang" my system and sometimes just the window from which I'm
> > running the command "sync".
>
> If you have lots of dirty pages and lots of memory, sync can take
> several seconds and hold up any processes which do IO. This is
> especially noticeable on systems with only a single spindle or a vfs
> made of relatively few physical filesystems, but it also occur at the
> high end as well and will be a problem until be get per device
> queues.
>
>
>
>
> -cw
Andre Couture
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