Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Feb 2003 23:41:39 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: pdflush in D state |
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Patrick Mau <mau@oscar.ping.de> wrote: > > This goes extremly fast, but after a few seconds pdflush > gets stuck in D state and tries to write back dirty pages. > The machine is completly unresponsive and "top" reports > 75 percent IO wait time. The actual build has not even started. >
At a guess, I'd say that a disk device driver has dropped an interrupt and I/O completion has not happened.
Check your kernel log and dmesg output for anything untoward, and then try invoking sysrq-P and sysrq-T to find out where everythihg is stuck.
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