[CentOS] Odd INFO "120 seconds" in logs for 2.6.18-194.3.1

[Scott Silva]

on 6-7-2010 1:12 PM Steve Brooks spake the following:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Since upgrading to "2.6.18-194" I am getting odd messages in the logs. 
> Such as;
> 
> sraid3 kernel  INFO  task pdflush 259 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
> 
> 
> The output from
> 
>> grep '120 seconds' /var/log/messages | tr : ' ' | awk '{print $10}' | sort | uniq -c
> 
>        6 nfsd
>        4 pdflush
> 
> This is from an NFS server that since the upgrade has been flakey. I have 
> an identical server running "2.6.18-164.11.1" and no such messages are 
> seen.
> 
> is anyone else seeing this and/or know what is going on?
> 
> Steve
> 
Maybe boot back to the older kernel and see if the messages stop... That would
eliminate any sudden coincidental hardware problems.