I've been able to reproduce this consistently on my desktop (2.5gb ram, [email protected] singlecore, 7200rpm drive) by writing half a meg to a couple thousand different files sequentially, dropping the cache, deleting them, and starting over. Usually the machine hardlocks partway into the second cycle. Under 2.6.29, the test completes fine with no intermittent hanging or otherwise. I haven't tried any other kernels yet.
My laptop (1gb ram, [email protected], 5400rpm drive) hangs intermittently on the same workload, but doesn't hardlock consistently. ** Attachment added: "hang.py" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24530324/hang.py -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
