Richard Zidlicky wrote: > I am getting repeatable deadlocks using 2.4.18, loop-AES-v1.6e > and ciphers-v1.0e.tar.bz2. [snip] > Next I have copied 240 MB random files to the fresh filesystem > and bdflush as well as kupdated entered 'D' state, a few other > processes that were active at that time entered the 'T' state > All files have been apparently correctly copied over, can be > accessed and everything else works quite well except that every > (f)sync hangs - a few hours later the system is still usable.. > > I am running automount and knfsd which did nothing at that time. > > Any idea? Did you change kernel .config between compiling your running kernel and compiling loop.o + loop_serpent.o modules? Compiling a module and rest of kernel with different .config is almost guaranteed to cause trouble. Can you try kernel 2.4.19-rc3 as it should have better VM? Regards, Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/
