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Re: loop-AES trouble

Richard Zidlicky wrote:
> I am getting repeatable deadlocks using 2.4.18, loop-AES-v1.6e
> and ciphers-v1.0e.tar.bz2.
[snip]
> Next I have copied 240 MB random files to the fresh filesystem
> and bdflush as well as kupdated entered 'D' state, a few other
> processes that were active at that time entered the 'T' state
> All files have been apparently correctly copied over, can be
> accessed and everything else works quite well except that every
> (f)sync hangs - a few hours later the system is still usable..
> 
> I am running automount and knfsd which did nothing at that time.
> 
> Any idea?

Did you change kernel .config between compiling your running kernel and
compiling loop.o + loop_serpent.o modules? Compiling a module and rest of
kernel with different .config is almost guaranteed to cause trouble.

Can you try kernel 2.4.19-rc3 as it should have better VM?

Regards,
Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi>

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