At 16:18 14-1-2004 -0600, Stephan L Jansen wrote:
Hi,
I have a ~ 80GB parition (5 disk hardware RAID 0) on a two processor Dell
2650. I
have seen two xfs_force_shutdowns on it in the last few days. The
filesystem is
accessed largely via NFS by between 50 or 100 processes on remote
machines. I'm
currently running 2.4.20-28_36.rh8.0.atsmp which is XFS 1.3.0. There are
no other
logs in either syslog or dmesg. Here's the error message:
If it's a Perc3/Di it's a adaptec (aacraid) controller. Basically it is
crap piece of hardware that falls apart under load.
There is a workaround which you can found on the just launched
http://linux.dell.com/
The scsi layer in the Perc3 gets stuck often which results in the
controller firmware deadlocking. Upping a certain timeout in the driver to
60 seconds will prevent this from throwing a IO error to the kernel but the
box will stall for a seemingly long time.
The best workaround for the moment is using either software raid or
purchasing a Perc3/DC or better yet a Perc4/DC.
Both are also faster and a lot faster respectively with regards to raid 5
throughput.
Cheers
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Seth
I don't make sense, I don't pretend to either. Questions?
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