Re: [linux-pm] Re: A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?)

2007-09-28 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 07:28 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > > Is it really NFS-related? I was trying to back up my 2.6.23-rc8 system > > to an external USB drive the other day when something flaked and the > > drive fell off the bus. That, too, was

Re: [linux-pm] Re: A unresponsive file system can hang all I/O in the system on linux-2.6.23-rc6 (dirty_thresh problem?)

2007-09-28 Thread Alan Stern
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 07:28 -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: Is it really NFS-related? I was trying to back up my 2.6.23-rc8 system to an external USB drive the other day when something flaked and the drive fell off the bus. That, too, was