On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 6:51 PM, Theodore Ts'o <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 28, 2012 at 05:02:17PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Any idea what happened here (during a backup)? > > A sync system call took longer than two mintues. Why that happened, > it's harder to say. It's a warning, though, and not a fatal panic or > kernel oops. Ah, got it.
> > How much memory do you have in your system? 32GB memory/32GB swap > What happened afterwards? It did eventually complete. > Did the system continue, and did the sync command (I presume you ran > "sync" from the command line?) finally return to the command prompt? In this case I did not run sync, I waited for the processes/dump/etc to complete. Thanks. Justin. -- 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/
