01-18-2012
Server distributions often lower the tick rate so pre-emption happens less often, but it'd be ridiculous to turn it off. Anyone who's ever used windows 3.1 knows the consequences of that, and allowing one faulty usermode process to bomb your system is beyond stupid. I don't accept that option means what you think it does. I'll investigate in more detail myself.
There's an enormous problem with your explanation, anyway. His system did, in fact, pre-empt grep. How else could he have regained control by ctrl-alt-f1? Why would it pre-empt for ctrl-alt-f1, and not for the GUI? His system wasn't hardlocked. The GUI had malfunctioned.
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I'm pretty sure you're talking about kernel-mode pre-emption, which is something different. It allows the kernel to pre-empt itself in some circumstances so it can respond more quickly and smoothly to realtime requests. This is often left disabled for servers, because it may trade some performance for response time.
This has nothing to do with the pre-emption of user-mode programs. A linux system that lacks user-mode pre-emption would not be stable or sane.
So I stand by my earlier point: grep should not have been able to freeze a system by consuming 100% CPU. Something else is going wrong with this system. If this is the system I think it is, COKEDUDE has had strange problems with this system before, like random segmentation faults in perfectly good programs, so I don't trust that grep itself is the issue.
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NAME
xfs_freeze - suspend access to an XFS filesystem
SYNOPSIS
xfs_freeze -f | -u mount-point
DESCRIPTION
xfs_freeze suspends and resumes access to an XFS filesystem (see xfs(5)).
xfs_freeze halts new access to the filesystem and creates a stable image on disk. xfs_freeze is intended to be used with volume managers
and hardware RAID devices that support the creation of snapshots.
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(see mount(8)).
The -f flag requests the specified XFS filesystem to be frozen from new modifications. When this is selected, all ongoing transactions in
the filesystem are allowed to complete, new write system calls are halted, other calls which modify the filesystem are halted, and all
dirty data, metadata, and log information are written to disk. Any process attempting to write to the frozen filesystem will block waiting
for the filesystem to be unfrozen.
Note that even after freezing, the on-disk filesystem can contain information on files that are still in the process of unlinking. These
files will not be unlinked until the filesystem is unfrozen or a clean mount of the snapshot is complete.
The -u flag is used to un-freeze the filesystem and allow operations to continue. Any filesystem modifications that were blocked by the
freeze are unblocked and allowed to complete.
One of -f or -u must be supplied to xfs_freeze.
NOTES
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