> Having lost half of my mailbox, it became more difficult to reproduce.
>
I can easily reproduce it with a simple bonnie (-s 300 in that case, your
millage may vary) and when it gets to "writing intelligently" the waste
product hits the fan...
> After verifying that I could still blow it up on command, I commented
>out "update" out of my inittab and rebooted. This was based on remarks in
>the bdflush rewrite thread.
>
> I was now unable to reproduce the problem after more that an hour of
>trying. It also felt like the system was MUCH more responsive when I was
>running the torture test.
>
> I then reenabled the update line in inittab and rebooted.
>
> I was able to reproduce the hang in less than five minutes.
>
Actually I could reproduce with and w/o update running, so it looks
much more like a generic race condition in the new buffer code.
Dewa,
<CB>
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