tech-kern: Re: dirty buffers growing ?

Subject: Re: dirty buffers growing ?
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: None <wojtek@3miasto.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/27/2001 20:42:22

> Hi,
> Look at this strange console output on reboot of my Ultra1:
> syncing disks... 37 37 36 30 24 20 17 33 29 20 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 17 giving up
> 
> How can the number of dirty buffers grow ?
> (don't ask why it can't flush all buffers, I suspect a problem in the scsi
> driver :(

maybe after first error it want to write some info in fs superblock (error
in FS etc.)