[Bug 507036] Re: Allocating space for large file results in program hanging with 100% CPU usage

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*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 431975 ***
    https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/431975

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Allocating space for large file results in program hanging with 100%
  CPU usage

Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Allocating space for large file results in program hanging with 100% CPU usage. I experienced this in both transmission and rtorrent with various files 4 - 6 GB in size. When the allocation starts, I see a lot of disk activity but after a while this activity stops while the program keeps using 100% of the CPU. I left rtorrent running overnight in this state and it doesn't recover.
  Furthermore, I can't kill the programs, even with SIGKILL. Actually, transmission dies, but becomes a zombie.
  I think I should mention I'm using ecryptfs on my home partition as set up by the Ubuntu installer.

  Here's a forum thread discussing this issue:
  http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1216636

  ProblemType: Bug
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
  Package: ubuntu-desktop 1.140
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=ro_RO:ro:en_GB:en
   LANG=ro_RO.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubuntu-meta
  Uname: Linux 2.6.28-17-generic i686

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