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Date:      Thu, 05 Feb 2004 13:52:08 -0500
From:      "Brian F. Feldman" <green@freebsd.org>
To:        Peter Losher <Peter_Losher@isc.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Odd quirks after updating to 5.2... 
Message-ID:  <200402051852.i15Iq81n067069@green.bikeshed.org>
In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Losher <Peter_Losher@isc.org>  <200402041823.36188.Peter_Losher@isc.org> 

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Peter Losher <Peter_Losher@isc.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 February 2004 04:49 pm, Doug White wrote:
> 
> > They weren't getting blocked in getblk or inode, were they? Thats one
> > thing that we're still chasing.
> 
> FWIW - the periodic processes are still stuck here, so I can tell you first
> hand.
> 
> The xargs, sort, sec, cron, cat, and mail processes are stuck in piperd.  The
> find process is blocked in getblk.
> 
> Let me know if you need more info.

FWIW, I've seen a deadlock similar to this.  I can get it when unmounting a 
UFS filesystem after writing to it (but haven't seen it before unmount).

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