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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2003 01:19:18 +0100 (CET)
From:      Martin Blapp <mb@imp.ch>
To:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   4.8 PR1 locks up for rm(1) big files
Message-ID:  <20030305011304.T93334@levais.imp.ch>

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Hi all,

After deleting a 80GB file on a IDE disk, the disk got
empty about 50% then rm(1) begun to consume all cpu and the
system got more and more unresponsive. I could not interrupt
the rm in any way, even kill -9 did not help, it was really
busy with unlink().

Later it lost the link and I had to turn it of after another 30 mins.

I don't know if it's a deadlock or a race somewhere, I suspect
that the OS was still alive, but really really slow.

I consider this as a serious bug. Note that I run softupdates
on the disk.

Martin

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