Bug#706999: Writing ISO to USB results in an unkillable blkid process
On 2013-05-07 14:15, Christian Kastner wrote:
> On 2013-05-06 23:51, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> reassign 706999 linux-2.6 thanks
>>
>> On May 06, Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at> wrote:
>>
>>> When attempting to write an ISO installer image to a USB stick,
>>> at some point there is an unkillable blkid process (state:
>>> uninterruptible sleep) and syslog gets spammed with the following
>>> message once every second:
Further info: the messages start exactly at the moment dd completes the
write:
7808608+0 records
7808608+0 records out
3998007296 bytes (4.0 GB) copied, 1059.6 s, 3.8 MB/s
at this point upwards of 1GB of memory are still dirty / in writeback.
The messages stop when dirty / writeback reaches 0.
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