Hi Alex, I ran the xfstests 234 with procs set to 20 and I can consistently make it hang. Looks like, the log buffer is full and all the processes are sleeping at xlog_wait() or blocked on a mutex which was held by a process that is sleeping on xlog_wait(). wake up happens when sync is invoked and all processes run free to completion. In order to verify the hypothesis, I added the following code ------------------------- diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.c index 5cc3dde..b2c0d49 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_qm_syscalls.c @@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ xfs_qm_scall_setqlim( dqp->dq_flags |= XFS_DQ_DIRTY; xfs_trans_log_dquot(tp, dqp); + xfs_trans_set_sync(tp); error = xfs_trans_commit(tp, 0); xfs_qm_dqrele(dqp); -------------------------- and it seems to work well. Not sure if this can be a fix or the nudge has to happen somewhere else. Please comment. Regards, Chandra _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs