Re: Eee PC and SDHC access

["Joel CARNAT" <joel%carnat.net@localhost>]

> On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 06:59:18PM +0200, Joel CARNAT wrote:
> [...]
>> Any idea ?
>
> You know, just saying "I can copy small files but not big ones" is
begging for being humoured.  Please be more specific with what happens.
>

well... the problem is it does not happen a single thing :)
I mean, running "systat vmstat" does not show a single "weird" thing (no
high load, no high interrupt numbers, ...)
Nor does top. There is nothing in dmesg.

I am running "cp" in the XFCE Terminal.
If I send Ctrl-C to the "cp" command, it never gets killed.
If I try to run "sudo kill -9 $PID" in another (already started) xterm,
this command never gives me the prompt back (and the cp command does not
get killed).
If I try to start another Terminal, the app shows up but I never get the
(bash) prompt.

If I switched to console and login as root, I can run "pkill cp", my "cp"
command gets killed.

If I run a "ls" command on the mounted SDHC (to see what's been copied),
the "ls" command freezes and I can't kill it from the root console. In
this state, sysctl says:
    7 users    Load  0.04  0.07  0.07                  Sun May 11 20:34:25

Proc:r  d  s  w     Csw    Trp    Sys   Int   Sof    Flt      PAGING  
SWAPPING
          18         27           110     8    28             in  out   in
 out
                                                        ops
   0.0% Sy   0.0% Us   0.0% Ni   0.1% In  99.9% Id    pages
|    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
                                                                          forks
fkppw
           memory totals (in kB)             136 Interrupts
fksvm
          real  virtual     free                 softint net/0
pwait
Active  883348   883348  1067636                 softi net block         
relck
All     974560   974560  1329776                 softint bio/0           
rlkok
                                                 softi bio block
noram
Namei         Sys-cache     Proc-cache        27 softint clk/0           
ndcpy
    Calls     hits    %     hits     %           softint ser/0
fltcp
      325      325  100                      100 cpu0 timer
zfod
                                               8 ioapic0 pin 9
cow
Disks:   sd0   wd0   md0  nfs0  nfs1             ioapic0 pin 1         64
fmin
 seeks                                           ioapic0 pin 12        85
ftarg
 xfers                                           ioapic0 pin 16
itarg
 bytes                                         1 ioapic0 pin 17      1558
wired
 %busy                                           ioapic0 pin 23
pdfre
                                                 ioapic0 pin 18

Hope it helps,
    Jo