Hello Ragnar,
You wouldn't per chance be using an Adaptec-39160 or Adaptec-29160? If
so try the aic7xxx_old instead of the aic7xxx.
I've had the same problems and no lockups since I started using the old
drivers.
(I'm still crossing my fingers though ;-)
Cheers, Luc.
Ragnar Kjørstad wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> We're experiencing a deadlock on a NFS-server using a XFS filesystem.
> The kernel was originally running SGI XFS 1.0, but we've now tried 1.0.1
> and the CVS-version (as of yesterday) - same problem.
>
> The deadlock appear to be happening when accessing big files over NFS,
> but we're not sure as we have not found a way to reproduce. There are no
> kernel messages written to syslog, and the kernel debugger does not
> start when pressing pause.
>
> I assume that means the problem is inside an interrupt handler? Does
> that exclude XFS as the potential problem?
>
> The system is using aic7xxx SCSI adapters and hamachi gigabit ethernet
> card.
>
> We're going to try with a different filesystem and a different gigabit
> card next, but if you have other suggestions for how to debug this,
> please let us know.
>
> --
> Ragnar Kjorstad
> Big Storage
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