Re: infinite loop? with mmap, nfs, pwrite, O_DIRECT

[Chuck Lever <cel@citi.umich.edu>]

Kenny Simpson wrote:
> I have a smaller test case (4 system calls, and a memset), that causes the test case to hang in an
> unkillable state*, and makes the system load consume an entire CPU.
>
> *the process is killable if run under strace, but the system load does not drop when the strace is
> killed.
>
> Pass this the name of a target file on an NFS mount.
>
> (tested to fail on 2.6.15-rc1).

kenny-

i'm assuming that because you copied trond, this is only reproducible on 
NFS.  have you tried this test on other local and remote file system types?
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