Adrian Head schrieb:
>
> Again - thanks Simon for your time.
>
> I have done ten's of tests now and I am getting a strong feeling that it
> is the same problems described here from Steve Lord:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=99980808004670&w=2
>
> Or the start of the thread:
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-xfs&m=99919025308712&w=2
>
> The reason I am almost convinced it is the same issue is that about
> every 3 attempts I have only bdflush running and everything else in
> deadlock. - I will have to follow the instructions and see what output I
> get from kdb.
So do I.
>
> It appears that although they could only get it to crash with SCSI the
> problem affects both SCSI & IDE.
>
> I was going to short-cut the process and just download the cvs tree -
> but for some reason the XFS site times-out at the moment. I will try
> later.
>
> When your machine hangs - have you noticed any trends in what processes
> are left running?
Unfortunately it disabled kdb and was not able to get a process list.
I'm still trying more tests and I will also try a current kernel if time
permits.
Simon
>
> Adrian Head P/L
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Simon Matter [SMTP:simon.matter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:28
> > To: Adrian Head
> > Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Problems with many processes copying large
> > directories acrossan XFS volume.
> >
> >
> > I tried 20, 40 and 80 simultanous cp with no crash. Then I changed the
> > file tree and the new tree has ~280M small files with 100b-50kb size.
> > When using 60 cp jobs the machine died. I could ping it but nothing
> > more. No ssh, no console, no shutdown. I try some more tests tonight.
> > I
> > try the same with ext2 as well to make sure it's XFS and not Softraid.
> >
> > -Simon
> >
> >
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