Re: 2.4.18 freezes on heavy IO

Chris Mason (mason@suse.com)
Mon, 18 Mar 2002 09:09:19 -0500


On Monday, March 18, 2002 02:52:41 PM +0100 Richard Ems <r.ems.mtg@gmx.net> wrote:

> Hi all!
>
> I'm seeing my system freeze on heavy IO. Only the reset button brings it
> back to life again (ALT-SysRq-b also worked once). I'm running SuSE's
> 2.4.18-30 on a Pentium III (Coppermine) with 256 MB RAM (yes, I should
> try vanilla 2.4.18, I will ...)
> No SCSI, all IDE. LVM and ext3.

Which rpm? k_i386, k_deflt, k_psmp, k_smp? This is probably the
(aa specific) ext3 deadlock recently fixed by andrea and andrew.

-chris

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