On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 05:36:26PM -0500, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> I'm having a severe problem with a configuration, but I'm not sure where
> this problem lies. Thus, I would like to request from the XFS team, any
> known issues regarding kernel 2.4.19, xfs, and 2.4.19-rc5-aa1 patch on
> quad P4 Xeon boxen.
>
> I don't know if the issue is XFS, but I don't know it's *not* either.
> The server stats right now, are that I have two Dell 6650's with 8GB
> ram, RH 7.2 from the xfs 1.1 installer base, with most recent redhat
> updates, QLogic 2300Fs atached to ~1TB - 3TB of FC2 storage using LVM
> for volume management.
>
> The symptoms are that after about 6 days of uptime with loadavg ~10-12%
> most of the time, running oracle8i and some other apps we have, the box
> locks.
>
> Usually bad enough that none of the volumes ever get's shut down in any
> way, and usually corrupting the xfs log header, so that I have to run
> "xfs_repair -L /dev/vg/somevol" to let the volume mount. I keep hitting
> the pagebuf.c mount bug which was fixed some time ago, where mount on an
> unrepaired file system causes a kernel BUG() at page_buf.c:32(or
> something simliar, I can send a ksymoops output if anyone can help).
>
> I'm only curious if there is something in XFS or in the 2.4.19-rc5-aa1
> kernel patch that could cause this behaviour, and of course what that
> might be.
>
> This is very urgent, so if anyone can mail me directly to help resolve
> this, I'm more than happy to take the time to talk and try suggestions.
I would try again with 2.4.20pre10aa1 + the patch posted by Christoph in
the previous email about xfs that should allow compilation of xfs. You
also may want to try to regenerate the fs with mkfs instead of using
fsck just in case. I would like to know if it helps or not. Thanks.
Andrea
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