Re: kern/46136: processes get stuck in D under high I/O load

[Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/46136; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hauke Fath <hf%spg.tu-darmstadt.de@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/46136: processes get stuck in D under high I/O load
Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2012 07:09:24 +0100

 At 18:25 Uhr +0000 04.03.2012, Lars Heidieker wrote:
 > Can you reproduce the problem with src/sys/kern/subr_vmem.c updated
 > to 1.73 ?
 
 Yes.
 
 <snip>
 root   2225  7901  8306 392f58    0 D    ?       0:06.40 find / ( ! -fstype
 local -o -fstype rdonly -o -fstype
 root   7787   345   345 392a08    0 I    ?       0:00.00 cron: running job
 root   7901  8306  8306 392f58    0 I    ?       0:00.00 /bin/sh /etc/daily
 root   7995  8306  8306 392f58    0 I    ?       0:00.00 tee /var/log/daily.out
 smmsp  8133  8306  8306 392f58    0 I    ?       0:00.00 sendmail -t
 root   8306  7787  8306 392f58    0 Is   ?       0:00.00 /bin/sh -c /bin/sh
 /etc/daily 2>&1 | tee /var/log/dail
 </snip>
 
 I'll wait tll i am @workplace before trying to reboot the machine, since I
 expect the console to hang, but so far, the behaviour is unchanged.
 
        hauke
 
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