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Re: Problems with XFS and Linux SMP

To: Jan Smith <smith@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Problems with XFS and Linux SMP
From: Jim Eshleman <jce0@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 09:23:25 -0400
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
References: <vxlmjc4sju.fsf@snoddas.lkpg.cendio.se>
Sender: owner-linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
Jan,

  Have you disabled the NMI watchdog?  I had to do this on a Netfinity
x370.  Try booting with: nmi_watchdog=0

Jim

> I'm testing a v2.4.9 Linux kernel with your XFS-patch applied on
> a IBM Netfinity 5500 with two Xeon-CPU's and 2Gb RAM.
> The machine runs completely well in a couple of hours but does then
> suddenly crash totaly without any error messages at all.
> 
> There seems to be something concerning race conditions between
> SMP locking and file locking but we are not sure.
> Just now are the machine running with the same kernel but in
> single CPU-mode and have done so for a week or more.
> All partitions on the machine are using XFS filesystem.
> 
> Are any of you on the list knowing of any problem like this
> that can get our machine run more than 6-9 hours wich are the
> maximum uptime we have reached so far.
> 
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