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Re: performance and hanging issues

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Subject: Re: performance and hanging issues
From: Arjen Wolfs <arjen@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:44:51 +0200
In-reply-to: <4.3.2.7.2.20010424164837.00ba3c30@pop.euronet.nl>
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At 04:56 PM 4/24/01 +0200, you wrote:
At 09:39 AM 4/24/01 -0500, you wrote:
Arjen Wolfs wrote:

> Hi Eric,
>
> I checked out linux-2.4-xfs-beta, since that was mentioned as being the
> "bugfix only" branch. What branch exactly do you suggest I try?

Ah, if you're having these problems with a recent linux-2.4-xfs-beta
checkout, then we need to figure out what's causing them.

Anything you can provide to help us duplicate your problem would be most
appreciated - any test script you're using, and more information on the
box (things like which scsi card you have, etc)

I checked it out last friday, so fairly recent. The box is a dual PIII-733 with 1GB of RAM (highmem support enabled), with the xfs parition being a 250G hardware RAID5 array connected to an Adaptec 2940 (U2W-LVD) adapter. This box had been running 2.4.2 with reiserfs for the last 2 months or so with no problems, until reiser trashed my partition and left me without a working fsck, hence I am now trying xfs.


The dramatic slowdown problem occured when extracting a large zipfile (57400 files, 650MB zipped, 12G unzipped) to the partition. When the box froze up nothing heavy-duty was running on the box.

The kernel is very plain - no LVM, modules, multimedia or such things are enabled, just hardware drivers and the other bare basics.

Hi folks,

I am continuing to see random freezes on this machine; does anybody have any idea on how to resolve this? If more information is needed to troubleshoot just I shall of course attempt to provide it.

Arjen Wolfs


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