Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> writes: > I tested it on a NF4-Professional system with 8GB RAM and a single > SATA disk. It first did nicely in LTP and some other tests, > but during a bonnie++ run it eventually blocked with all > IO hanging forever. No output either. I did a full backtrace > and it just showed the processes waiting for a IO wakeup. Hmm, to follow myself up: after a few more minutes the machine recovered and i could log in again (overall the stall was at least 5+ minutes though) Not sure whom to blame, the IO driver might be actually innocent and it just be one of the usual known but unfixed IO starvation problems. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html