External USB harddrives...

[Net Llama!]

On 02/17/03 12:30, Jerry McBride wrote:
> I had some real "lock up" issues with kernel 2.4.20 usb drivers, but the
> 2.4.21-rc4 patch seems to have fixed most of them... What seems to be happening
> is... cp'ing files to the usb harddrive goes along smoothly until at a random
> moment the transfer stalls and the system load begins a steady spiral up...
> until total lockup. I've seen system load numbers from top reaching 12.00.

Something is blocking on IO.

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