On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:01:58 -0700 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Andy, > > I managed to reproduce the dbench problem. (not sure if its the same > thing or not - but symptoms are same). My problem has nothing to do > with ext3. I can produce it on ext2, jfs also. > > Whats happening on my machine is .. > > dbench forks of 4 children and sends them a signal to start the work. > 3 out of 4 children gets the signal and does the work. One of the child > never gets the signal so, it waits forever in pause(). So, parent waits > for a longtime to kill it. > > BTW, I was trying to find out when this problem started showing up. > So far, I managed to track it to 2.6.23-rc4. (2.6.23-rc3 doesn't seem > to have this problem). I am going to do bi-sect and find out which > patch caused this. > > I am using dbench-2.0 which consistently reproduces the problem on > my x86-64 box. Did you find anything new with your setup ? > Thanks, Badari. That sounds like a bit of a showstopper for 2.6.23. Michal, do you have this regression in the dirt file? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
