Bug#571242: linux-image-2.6.32-2-amd64: running 8 copies of bonnie deadlocks(?) in sync

[John Hughes <john@Calva.COM>]

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 05:02:41PM +0100, John Hughes wrote:
>   
> > Package: linux-2.6
> > Version: 2.6.32-8
> > Severity: normal
> >
> >
> > Running 8 copies of bonnie++ on 8 different filesystems on 8 disks seems
> > to produce a deadlock in sync(2).
> >
> > Initialy all the bonnie++ processes seem to be running ok, but after a while
> > only 2-3 of the disks are showing any I/O activiy and the dmesg output
> > shows:
> >     
> [...]
>
> Please report this upstream at <http://bugzilla.kernel.org> under product
> 'File System', component 'VFS', and let us know the bug number.
>   
This is bug 15426.

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*Bug 15426* <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15426> - Running 
many copies of bonnie++ on different filesystems seems to deadlock in sync