> > Why are there over-limit dirty pages that no one is writing? > > Please do a sysrq-t, and cat /proc/vmstat during the hang. Those > will show us what exactly is happening.
I did and I posted relevant information from my finding --- it looped in balance_dirty_pages. > I've seen this type of hang many times, and I agree with Peter, that > it's probably about loopback, and is fixed in 2.6.24-rc. On 2.6.23 it could happen even without loopback --- loopback just made it happen very often. 2.6.24 seems ok. Mikulas > Thanks, > Miklos > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
