Steve Bergman wrote: > On the topic of writes starving reads in 2.6.9-42.0.2.ELsmp #1 SMP. It > really *does* lock the box up, for all practical purposes. It's not > really locked, but any normal user would conclude that the system was > frozen up. > What exactly are you doing that's causing this condition? I've got a 4-core opteron box that I've just installed 4.4 + updates on and would like to see if I can duplicate the problem. Cheers,