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  1. Bug #330824
  2. Comment #40

Comment 40 for bug 330824

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Carey Underwood (cwillu) wrote : Re: [Bug 330824] Re: Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28
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I've been able to reproduce this consistently on my desktop (2.5gb
ram, amd@1.6ghz 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, intel@1.6ghz, 5400rpm drive) hangs intermittently
on the same workload, but doesn't hardlock consistently.