On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Roger Heflin wrote:
converting the machines to ext3 eliminates the issues. Under load
they were seeing 1-2 events per 24 hours on 100 machines.
just to be sure: 1-2 machines out of 100 had a hanging XFS in 24h,
right? (as opposed to "each of the 100 machines had 1-2 incidents in
24h" ;))
They are using Sles9SP2, currently we cannot go to SP3 as there
are some other bad driver issues unrelated to XFS (the issue
preventing us from upgrading also appears to be in 2.6.16.x
kernel.org kernels so that is a more than just a SLES issue).
So, you can't upgrade to a more current SuSE kernel, but you've already
tried vanilla kernels? OK, you won't be able to upgrade to a kernel.org
kernel because of the driver issues - but do the XFS hangs go away?
Did it happen with earlier SuSE kernels too?
anywhere. The first type of machine to have the issue
and where the issue is alot more common has only 4GB
of ram, the second type of machine that has recently
starting also having the error has 32GB of ram.
Shot in the dark: did you try to boot with the "mem=" option?
You could try to boot with e.g. "mem=512M" and see if the problem has
something to do with memory...
Christian.
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BOFH excuse #228:
That function is not currently supported, but Bill Gates assures us it will be
featured in the next upgrade.
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