On Tue, 20 Jun 2000, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Christopher Zimmerman wrote:
>
> > Whenever I attempt to build a web index on a box running
> > 2.4.0-test1-ac22-riel the will eventually crash. I think
> > several concurrent bonnies with a file size will do the same
> > thing. Since all my test boxes are down right now I can't
> > confirm that. However, this problem only manifests itself after
> > hours upon hours of crunching.
>
> Maybe my latest VM patch fixes this, but I'm not sure if
> it would. If you could send us a bit more information about
> what you're doing with the box and what typical vmstat output
> and output of other stuff looks like, I'm sure we'll have a
> better idea what's going on in your system...
I'll second the report on ac22-riel problems: I just had two hangs
within 15 minutes after bootup (fsck takes 10+ minutes).
Linux oestergaard 2.4.0-test1-ac22 #1 SMP Wed Jun 21 01:36:54 CEST 2000 i686 unknown
Kernel modules 2.1.121
Gnu C 2.95.1
Binutils 2.9.5.0.16
Linux C Library 2.1.1
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.1
Procps 2.0.6
Mount 2.9
Net-tools 1.50
Console-tools 1999.03.02
Sh-utils 1.16
Modules Loaded 3c59x
The root filesystem is on Software RAID-5 on four SCSI disks (aic7xxx). There
are no IDE disks in the system.
I had more than two weeks of uptime with -ac4 (no crashes at all), and I've had
some days of uptime with -ac21 (no crashes either).
It's my home system so I mainly do mutt/netscape/mozilla and heavy
compilations.
-ac22 will die horribly if I run a disk benchmark on the RAID (tiotest). It
dies with interrupts _enabled_ though, and I can still ping the system from the
network. Keyboard is unresponsive (in X), mouse likewise, system is dead
except for the network layers it seems. The fact that there's nothing in the
logs probably indicate that _most_ of the kernel hangs somewhere.
I'm of to work for now, but I'll be happy to try out patches/whatever later
on. If nothing else comes up, I'll try the Andrea-variant of -ac22 and see
if I have better luck there.
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