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Sverre Froyen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This morning, again, LFS appeared to acting up.  One process (kontact) =
was=20
> using about 25% of the cpu and its state (from top) was alternating bet=
ween=20
> lfs_io<somthing> (I think) and lfs <something> (I thought that I had be=
en=20
> able to save the output from top in an ffs file, so I did not write it =
down). =20
> In addition, iostat was showing a steady disk transfer rate of 6 MB/s a=
nd I=20
> could hear the disk seeking.  kontact could not be killed (even with -9=
) and=20
> the halt (and reboot) command had no effect.  Any command that accessed=
 an=20
> lfs file system would hang (other commands seemed OK).
>
> System is 4.99.1 i386, GENERIC_LAPTOP + acpi, Thinkpad T42.
>
> Ideas anyone?
>  =20

Are you running with this change?  Sounds like a problem that Konrad
fixed a few days ago:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2006/09/15/0046.html

+j



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