Re: 2.0.37 locked on high loaded server

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 7 Jul 1999 13:56:50 +0100 (BST)


> PS: I have no more the exact content of 'dmesg' because I wrote
> it down to file on the root disk (IDE), but the file had vanished
> when the machine went up again after the reboot: it seems that
> problems on one disk controler also make other ones work sadely,
> maybe due to some locks in the cache flusher process.
> Next time, I will FTP it before rebooting the server :-)

If you lose a disk you may well lose a lot more. The machine at this point
has real problems. It does its best to survive.

BTW: man reboot - you can tell the box to reboot right now and stuff all the
nice shutdown stuff

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