"stuck" here I mean, the kernel stuck inside kernel, so applications got stuck as well... On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, Simon. > > On 06/29/2010 09:10 AM, Simon Li wrote: >> We observed that all the processes on the blade are totally stuck, >> though only one process is actually accessing the disks, other >> processes are mostly CPU-consuming applications. > > Can you please turn on printk timestamp and attach the dmesg output > _after_ such failure? I think there are two possibilities. The > kernel could be generating too many messages to slow serial console, > or the it might as well be that all processes got stuck on IO. It's > really difficult to figure out what's going on without more specific > information. What does "stuck" mean? Does it mean all of them are in > iowait or is the kernel just stuck inside kernel? > > 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