Leslie Rhorer wrote: >>> If you can bear with slower operation, keeping issuing sync repeatedly >>> (ie. something like while true; do sync; sleep 1; done) and see how >>> the behavior changes might shed some light on what's going on too. >> I wouldn't expect it to have any diagnostic value, really. The sync >> command >> locks up just like every other disk I/O when the event occurs. > > I tried this and it doesn't seem to have made a difference. Neither does > using noop as the scheduler. Hmm... yeah, I was mostly thinking about ext3 for this and the next suggestion, which often has large latency when flushing its journal to disk. I suppose the next stop is trying another filesystem? Thanks. -- tejun -- 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