Disk/FS I/O issues in -CURRENT

[Alan L. Cox]

Peter Holm wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 03:26:13PM +0200, Eirik Oeverby wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Good to see I'm not the only one.
> > I'm currently going back to a kernel dated 2003.06.27.12.00.00, and I'll test
> > again with that one.
> >
> 
> Ok.
> 
> I see that alc@ made some recent changes to the vm (vm_pageout.c).
> I don't know if there's any connection to this problem?
> 

I've been able to reproduce what I believe is the problem.  (In my case,
I reset my machine and watched the background fsck slowly grind to a
halt.  Foreground fsck is fine.)

The problem actually appears to be in vm_page_alloc(), not
vm_pageout.c.  Look for a commit to resolve this in a few hours.

Regards,
Alan