Re: 2.4.20: Proccess stuck in __lock_page ...

[Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)]

On Tue, 27 May 2003, Marc-Christian Petersen wrote:

> On Tuesday 27 May 2003 19:53, manish wrote:
>
> Hi Manish,
>
> > With respect to the hangs that you noticed, did the processes complete
> > after a "pause" or did they stay hung (deadlocked)?
> yes, no processes get ever deadlocked nor anything else in this area. The
> whole system just does _nothing_ for an amount of time (1-15 seconds,
> depends). _Sometimes_ (not always) even a ping is stoped for the amount of
> time the machine does nothing but pausing.
>
> Also not a hardware problem. I made this clear before reporting this bug.
> Tested tons of different hardware, different drivers for the network card
> etc.
>
> I repeat this now for the $high_number'th time ;):
> - 2.4.18 worked perfect
> - 2.4.19-pre not

Thats very useful information. Can you track down which -pre introduced
the hangs?

Thanks!
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