Re: Task blocked for more than 120 seconds
Thanks for the fast answer!
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 03:31:12PM -0300, Jorge Eduardo Birck wrote:
>> Hello.
>>
>> Im having this error:
>>
>> "task blocked for more than 120 seconds"
>>
>> In all my Debian Lenny machines, including production servers. I
>> always use Debian and a never seen a kernel bug that make my servers
>> freezes before. It makes all my infrastructure (debian and xen based)
>> go unstable.
>>
>> This happend especially when i use high IO disk, but it's hard to
>> reproduce the error. It happens sometimes when i remove some big
>> files, while i'm reading anothers. If i'm using DRBD and Xen, it
>> happens more.
>
> This error indicates a class of bug, not a specific bug. The Xen kernel
> flavour is unfortunately very unstable in lenny, and noone seems to be
> able to fix it. Note that you can run the 686-bigmem and amd64 kernels as
> domU under Xen, and these appear to be much more stable.
>
> drbd is a separate module not supported by the kernel team. You can
> contact the drbd maintainers at
> <debian-ha-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>.
>
>> My question is, how can i reproduce this error?
>
> That is not the problem; the problem, is how can *we* reproduce this
> error and track it down. We don't have an answer to that.
>
>> Anyone here has the same problem sometime?
>
> Yes, see <http://bugs.debian.org/src:linux-2.6>.
>
>> Its fixed in the last kernel update?
>
> Some causes have been fixed, others not.
>
>> I don't > see this problem in Etch. Until when i will have etch security
>> upgrades?
>
> Sorry, etch security support has ended.
>
>> I saw that others Linux distributions have the same problem, but no
>> answers in Google.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
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> - Albert Camus
>
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