On 11/21/10 23:05, Neil Brown wrote: > Yes. Superficially, it appears that there are still 5 outstanding read > requests that are not being completed. I cannot guess how OpenVZ would > cause that, but I don't really know much about OpenVZ Hi Neil, I very much appreciate your help debugging this. I opened a bug against the relevant Debian kernel. Now that this is pretty well characterised, I think it's probably best to just workaround it (e.g. by setting speed_limit_max to 0 during the backups which were tripping over this), until such time as the kernel can be replaced with a more recent one... Cheers, Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
