just a little followup to this: it does not seem to be XFS related
- had the same symptom today now with ext2 too under load and redid
the article fetching without load and it worked fine - so it looks
that are the "usual" 2.4.2 fs problems under load ... will move the
files back to XFS an avoid load in that situations
t
thomas graichen <list-linux.sgi.xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> this is something which has to be investigated further first by
> me but i'd like to ask around here too ... are there any issues
> known regarding gdbm db's on XFS filesystems? (i assume no :-)
> the reason i ask is that i had some trouble with my little offline
> newsserver i use here for reading the mailinglists - noffle - it
> puts all the articles it stores into an gdbm database which is on
> this machine here on an XFS filesystem ... it worked fine here for
> some time but then noffle started crashing on more and more groups
> and debugging it did not really bring up any useful results ... i
> then contacted the author of noffle and he said that there are
> some issues with noffle running on reiserfs - so i was thinking
> about possible problems on XFS ... ok - to find out what is the
> reason for the most probably corrupted gdbm database i now run the
> noffle spools on an ext2 filesystem - i hope to know more within
> the next days ...
> so - no proven problem with XFS for now - i'll mail again if it
> works on ext2 (because then it would be an XFS problem ...)
> t
> --
> thomas graichen <tgr@xxxxxxxxxxx> ... perfection is reached, not
> when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no
> longer anything to take away. --- antoine de saint-exupery
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thomas graichen <tgr@xxxxxxxxxxx> ... perfection is reached, not
when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no
longer anything to take away. --- antoine de saint-exupery
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