On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:41:30 +0100 Marc SCHAEFER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 02:42:02AM -0500, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > Pretty much every run I get messages like the following: > > AFAIK it's because mtio operations are done in D state > (uninterruptible sleep). > > And except for mtio operations which may last more than two minutes, > nothing in the usual kernel operation will last that long. > > Solutions: > - either fix mtio to be interruptible (which may well cause > problems because e.g. SCSI reselection might happen later) > - use the proposed work-around > - ignore those messages in your logcheck. > > Okay, I wasn't sure if it was something that needed fixing. Since it's not it's not so much a bug as something that needs documented because it looks like a segfault or similar, but really is just something that sometimes happens with mtio operations. -- And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org The C Shore: http://www.wightman.ca/~cshore
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