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  1. Bug #582264
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Comment 26 for bug 582264

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David Oftedal (rounin) wrote :

This issue stil affects me in Maverick Meerkat. uname -a returns the following:
Linux big-iron 2.6.35-23-generic #41-Ubuntu SMP Wed Nov 24 11:55:36 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The bug can be triggered by periods of relatively high disk activity, but it also seems to generate its own disk activity, and I've no idea what it's using the disk for. dmesg seems to indicate that there was an out of memory error at some point, but I'm not using swap, so it shouldn't involve the disk.

This blog entry - http://billauer.co.il/blog/2010/10/disk-io-scheduler-load-dd-freeze-stall-hang/ - indicates that it could be a kernel bug, and so I'm going to put off investigating it further until I've been able to try that kernel (or have resolved it in some other way).