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From: terry@thisbe.npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert)
Subject: Re: Hang up on heavy disk load (Re: Adaptec SCSI bug?)
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Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1992 17:10:33 GMT
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In article <scott.712957192@pita>, scott@pita.cns.ucla.edu (Scott Burris) writes:

[ ... Description of disk-use lockup deleted ... ]

|> Well, if this is the same problem I've been having, the kernel is deadlocking
|> sleeping on something called "temp" which appears to be a temporary
|> memory allocator.  I've seen problems when I've built a new kernel
|> and immediately try copying it into the root filesystem.  If I do a
|> sync first and wait for it to complete, there's no problem.

Anyone willing to:

1)	Put up, for FTP download, a "dist.fs" with 'sync' on it?
2)	Put up, for FTP download, a "dist.fs" with sync(2) called after every
	write(2) in install?

I'm pretty much willing to try anything (except purchasing an IDE drive, that is).


					Terry Lambert
					terry_lambert@gateway.novell.com
					terry@icarus.weber.edu
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