From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/ 85.8.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/85 Description of problem: On occasion the program will "hang" when doing incremental dumps. That is annoying enough, but what is worse is that the program cannot be killed. It seems that one "hung" xfsdump process interferes with any further attempts to perform the selected backup. The only way I have found to kill these disconnected processes and successfully try to dump again is by rebooting the system.
Created attachment 103007 [details] output of ps -el Note the two instances of post-kill-attempt xfsdump
I partially got around this problem some time ago by applying a patch produced by Christoph Hellwig. See: http://oss.sgi.com/archives/linux-xfs/2004-05/msg00212.html Which apparently deals with a memory managment problem. (The patch is for /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/fs/xfs/linux/xfs_buf.c) The cutomized kernel no longer has the xfsdump hanging non-killable, but the kernel still does crash with depressing frequency during dumps. Is this considered a user space or kernel problem? Thank you.
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