Re: Lots of D processes
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:35:43PM -0500, Kelledin wrote:
> I've been running an old xfs-1.0 release for a while now (1.0.2
> iirc). It appears to be quite stable, on alpha and i386.
>
> About a week ago I decided to try XFS 1.2 just for fun. It isn't
> quite working so well, and I'm still trying to figure out why.
> I'm having the exact same problems as you are--processes tend to
> get stuck in 'D' state. I'm tracking it down even as I type
> this.
I'm not sure, its whatever XFS that comes with the patches for 2.4.20
off the SGI ftp server.
> So far I've found at least one bug that seems to be related to my
> problem. Try grabbing my patch for it at
> http://skarpsey.dyndns.org/alpha-lfs/patches/linux-2.4.20-xfs-alpha-deadlock.patch
> and applying it to your XFS-enabled kernel.
I'm just not going to use XFS on the alpha any more. Gone back to
ext2 and all strangeness has disappeared.
Still cannot boot a newer kernel with the hda interrupt failing, must
be something to do with the IDE driver and irq 14 and 15 but not sure
what.
- Craig
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