Hammer: processes blocked on a file

Francois Tigeot ftigeot at wolfpond.org
Wed Jul 30 10:17:02 PDT 2008


On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 10:02:37AM -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
>     What is happening is that the processes are stuck waiting for a
>     HAMMER inode which has a dependancy to flush, but HAMMER has lost
>     track of the dependancy so the process winds up waiting forever.

[...]

>     I will commit a fix today to both HEAD and 2.0.  It will need some
>     continuing testing since it is fairly hard to reproduce, to make sure
>     I actually fixed it the right place.

For some reason, I have no trouble on one of my machines. I haven't been
able to pinpoint an obvious cause yet, but it now takes less than one hour
after a reboot to show.
I just need to run some random applications: web browser, email, etc...
and korganizer then freezes almost every time...

-- 
Francois Tigeot





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