Re: [Bug 898] New: Very HIGH File & VM system latencies and system stop responding while extracting big tar archive file.

From: Sergey S. Kostyliov (rathamahata@php4.ru)
Date: Fri Jul 11 2003 - 04:46:39 EST


Hello all,

On Friday 11 July 2003 10:14, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=898
>
> Summary: Very HIGH File & VM system latencies and system stop
> responding while extracting big tar archive file.
> Kernel Version: 2.5.75
> Status: NEW
> Severity: high
> Owner: bugme-janitors@lists.osdl.org
> Submitter: bakhtiar@softhome.net
>
>
> Distribution:Slackware v7.1 : glibc v2.1.3
> Hardware Environment: P!!! 550 MHz, 256 MB RAM. HP Brio BA600

The same issues here with 2.5.7{4,5}. IO-intencive task got stuck in 'D'
state (bk,rsync,tar - it really doesn't matter). I think a have to get decoded
Alt-SysRq-T for this tasks next time.

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                   Sergey S. Kostyliov <rathamahata@php4.ru>
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