Hi folks.

Anyone running RHAS4 systems who are seeing processes hung in block_congestion_wait?

This shows in top like:

top - 14:20:53 up 22 days, 2:28, 51 users, load average: 5.83, 5.75, 6.69
Tasks: 717 total,   1 running, 705 sleeping,   1 stopped,  10 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.2% us, 0.3% sy, 0.0% ni, 49.6% id, 49.9% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si
Mem:  16573732k total, 11114520k used,  5459212k free,     5620k buffers
Swap: 18872224k total,    35340k used, 18836884k free,  8388056k cached

(See the "wa" value on the third line) On our systems, this eventually reaches over 99%, where very little useful work is done.

Running ps laxwww shows many processes hanging in on WCHAN blk_co. These processes are completely stuck for a long time. Eventually, the situation clears by itself. Priobably because users give up.

Christer Bernérus
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden


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