It may be a machine/kernel problem - when I run gdb on fs_lat, even without an
XFS partition mounted, the system hangs.
-Kip
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Kip Macy kmacy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
University of California, Berkeley
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan wrote:
> Steve Lord wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > > Have you tried running McVoy's lmbench?
> > > Yes.
> > >
> > > > How did it crash?
> > > The system locks up and does not respond even to Ctrl-Alt-Del when
> > > running th
> > e
> > > file system latency portion.
> > >
> > > I will narrow it down to a specific operation.
> > >
> > > -Kip
> >
> > Hmm, I just ran lmbench to completion can you tell us more about your
> > system,
> >
> > Are you running SMP or not? What type of disk drive are you using
> > (IDE/SCSI)?
> > Did you use CONFIG_PAGE_BUF_META in your build of XFS.
> >
> > I am running on a 2 cpu box using a scsi disk and with CONFIG_PAGE_BUF_META
> > turned on.
>
> I too have run lmbench earlier this week, with no PAGE_BUF_META,
> and things ran fine. Kip, do you have kdb on? If so, try breaking
> in with either "Pause/Break" key on a real console or <cntrl>-a on
> the serial console. If that doesn't work, you can also give it an NMI
> if your system supports it ... NMI is usually a separate button similar
> to reset.
>
>
> ananth.
>
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> Rajagopal Ananthanarayanan ("ananth")
> Member Technical Staff, SGI.
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