Re: 2.4.17 SMP hangs ..

Andrew Morton (akpm@digeo.com)
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:03:50 -0800

Manish Lachwani wrote:
>
> I am seeing system hangs with 2.4.17 SMP kernel when doing mke2fs accros 12
> drives in parallel. However, the hangs only occur when the I/O rate from
> vmstat is high:
>

Quite possibly it has not hung. You just need to wait half an
hour or so.

The algorithm isn't very good.
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