Re: 2.6.6-rc1-mm1 (and earlier): pdflush taking 100% cpu time (profile, .config etc. provided)

From: Jurriaan
Date: Tue Apr 20 2004 - 23:22:13 EST


From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 07:15:33PM -0700
> Jurriaan <thunder7@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > at times, pdflush is taking over my system:
>
> yup, there's some logic error in there. If I could reproduce it, it would
> be fixed in a jiffy :(
>
> Which filesystems are in active use at the time? reiserfs?
>

mostly, yes, also ext3, and raid-1 and linear raid. I can't always
reproduce it either, unfortunately :-(

/dev/md3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
usbfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
/dev/md4 on /usr type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
/dev/md2 on /var type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
sysfs on /devices type sysfs (rw)
/dev/md5 on /vmware type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/md0 on /home type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/md1 on /var/spool/news_binary type reiserfs (rw)
/dev/hde1 on /space1 type reiserfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/hdk1 on /space2 type reiserfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/hdg1 on /space3 type reiserfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

Personalities : [linear] [raid0] [raid1] [raid5]
md3 : active raid1 hdc1[0] hda1[1]
497856 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md4 : active raid1 hdc3[0] hda3[1]
8008320 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md2 : active raid1 hdc5[0] hda5[1]
16008640 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md5 : active raid1 hdc6[0] hda6[1]
8008256 blocks [2/2] [UU]

md1 : active linear hdi1[2] hdc7[1] hda7[0]
76909568 blocks 64k rounding

md0 : active raid1 hdc8[0] hda8[1]
62645312 blocks [2/2] [UU]

unused devices: <none>

Kind regards,
Jurriaan
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