Re: Ext2 superblock fault

2008-03-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
Thomas Bushnell BSG, le Sun 09 Mar 2008 22:17:05 -0400, a écrit : > On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 01:19 +, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > This thread is syncing everything, i.e. asking a lot of writes, which > > triggers the creation of a lot of threads. Unfortunately the superblock > > was paged out, so

Re: Ext2 superblock fault

2008-03-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 01:19 +, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > This thread is syncing everything, i.e. asking a lot of writes, which > triggers the creation of a lot of threads. Unfortunately the superblock > was paged out, so they all block on reading it. Unfortunately, since in > Debian there

Re: Ext2 superblock fault

2008-03-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
While having a beer with Gianluca, I thought about a possible case: > Thread 7 (thread 588.7): > #5 0x08052472 in write_all_disknodes () > at /build/mbanck/hurd-20071119/build-tree/hurd/ext2fs/inode.c:592 > #6 0x08054a90 in diskfs_sync_everything (wait=0) This thread is syncing everything,