From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1 StumbleUpon/1.9991 Description of problem: Whenever updatedb is ran on a large lvm disk the computer fails to respond to anyterhing (conosle or remote logins) Disk is this size: /dev/mapper/drive-files 330955256 268162252 45981384 86% /files Here is lvs: LV VG Attr LSize Origin Snap% Move Copy% files drive -wi-ao 320.66G home drive -wi-ao 5.91G slash drive -wi-ao 7.88G swap drive -wi-ao 768.00M And vgs: VG #PV #LV #SN Attr VSize VFree drive 3 4 0 wz--n 335.19G 0 And pgs: PV VG Fmt Attr PSize PFree /dev/hda2 drive lvm2 a- 74.41G 0 /dev/hdb1 drive lvm2 a- 186.28G 0 /dev/hdc1 drive lvm2 a- 74.50G 0 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): lvm2-2.00.25-1.01 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Run updatedb 2. Shortly, machine becomes unresponsive Actual Results: Shortly, machine becomes unresponsive Expected Results: Locate database should have been constructed Additional info:
Does it respond eventually or does the machine hang (ie disk activity stops completely)? If it hangs, please use sysreq to obtain a dump of the process backtraces.
If you see this problem again with the latest release (fc4), please reopen and supply sysreq info.