>From looking at these traces, it looks very much like the problem which
was solved just recently... I'd bet $0.02 that the latest CVS code will
solve your problems. (Note that the cvs snapshot patch is not the latest
CVS code.)
-Eric
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Adrian Head wrote:
> btp (1st go):
> shrink_cache (kernel)
> try_to_free_pages (kernel)
> balance_classzone (kernel)
> __alloc_pages (kernel)
> [xfs] linufs_lookup (xfs)
> link_path_walk (kernel)
> open_namei (kernel)
> dentry_open (kernel)
>
> btp (2nd go):
> try_to_release_page (kernel)
> shrink_cache (kernel)
> try_to_free_pages (kernel)
> balance_classzone (kernel)
> __alloc_pages (kernel)
> [xfs] linvfs_write (xfs)
> sys_write (kernel)
> system_call (kernel)
>
> To me at least it seems to be an interaction problem between XFS and kupdated.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas of where to go from here in my quest to sort this
> out? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> - --
> Adrian Head
>
> (Public Key available on request.)
>
> On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:21, you wrote:
> > I am again in the process of building a couple of file servers for various
> > purposes over the last week and thought that I'd have another serious look
> > at using XFS on the new file servers.
> >
> > Base system is Redhat 7.1 with a custom kernel - 2.4.16+xfs.
> >
> > My standard process before putting servers into production is to run a few
> > tests to make sure that I can trust the hardware/software combination. One
> > of my standard tests is to simulate many users simultaniously copying many
> > files across the filesystem. The volume is a software raid5 over 4 IDE
> > drives.
> >
> > It is during this test that the machine hangs after getting almost 95%
> > complete. I have tried running this test using XFS, ext2, ext3, reiserfs
> > and only XFS fails to complete. This situation is completely reproducable
> > every time I have run this test to date.
> >
> > I'm at a loss as to what to do next to troubleshoot this problem or even
> > what info people need.
> >
> >
> > Attached is some info:
>
> - --
> Adrian Head
>
> (Public Key available on request.)
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