On Thu, 2011-04-28 at 14:59 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > Actually, talking to Chris, I think I can get the system up using > init=/bin/bash without systemd, so I can try the no cgroup config. OK, so a non-PREEMPT non-CGROUP kernel has survived three back to back runs of untar without locking or getting kswapd pegged, so I'm pretty certain this is cgroups related. The next steps are to turn cgroups back on but try disabling the memory and IO controllers. James -- 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