Thanks - sorry I didn't find redhat's bugzilla sooner. I found https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71157 which seems even more closely related. So I added comments to it as well as to 77669. -Neal On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 05:12:20PM +0000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 12:35:02PM -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote: > > In August I reported a problem with the sys_ftruncate call that caused > > me to reboot my machine. I didn't see any responses to it then on the > > ext3 list, and the problem is now recurring, so I thought I'd try > > again. I don't think I've rebooted since the last problem. > > > > In the last few days it hasn't taken as long as 17 hours, but it has > > sometimes taken unusual and uncomfortable amounts of time (many > > minutes at least). > > Please have a look at > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77669 > > as this sounds like the same problem. The user in that case reports > that it happens with ext2 too. Seems that the core VM truncate code > in that kernel is livelocking under some situations. > > --Stephen _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
