On Jun 11,  1:37pm, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
> Subject: Re: Processes Hanging in a Disk Wait
> > Some time ago I know there was a problem with several ports with processes
> > occassionally hanging in a disk-wait (in vflushbuf). Does anyone know
whether
> > this problem was ever resolved?
>
> It wasn't, though I've found one possible cause of this last time it happened
> on my sparc (yesterday :-)
>
> Can you please try this patch (which isn't on the release tree yet) and
> see what it does for you:

[ patch snipped ]

Yup, that works. I've been hammering the disk all night with things which would
bring it to its knees in 10 minutes before :-)

Many Thanks

Rob Black

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