Allocating space for large file results in program hanging with 100% CPU usage
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Allocating space for large file results in program hanging with 100% CPU usage. I experienced this in both transmission and rtorrent with various files 4 - 6 GB in size. When the allocation starts, I see a lot of disk activity but after a while this activity stops while the program keeps using 100% of the CPU. I left rtorrent running overnight in this state and it doesn't recover.
Furthermore, I can't kill the programs, even with SIGKILL. Actually, transmission dies, but becomes a zombie.
I think I should mention I'm using ecryptfs on my home partition as set up by the Ubuntu installer.
Here's a forum thread discussing this issue:
http://
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.140
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-17-generic i686
I updated to Karmic today and the problem seems to have gone away. I only tried one file (6.6 GB) in transmission and, while the program freezes for a couple of minutes while the file space is being allocated, it recovers and functions normally. Will report back after more experiments.