On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Adam Hupp wrote:
> We have been experiencing frequent hangs with our Redhat 7.2 system
> running the 2.4.9 RH7.2 XFS 1.0.2 kernel rpm. There is nothing in the
> logs, and the machine usually stops dead in it's tracks. No console
> access, no ping, nothing. One time we still had NFS access while the
> rest of the machine (console, ssh, etc ) was inaccessable. I seem to be
> able to trigger it by running lots of fs load, but have not been able to
> reliably track it down to a single cause. While trying parrallel cp -r
> (local) and grep'ing through the fs (over nfs) it eventually hung.
>
> Is there anything I can do to narrow down the source of the problem? We
> will be trying the 2.4.14 XFS 1.0.2 kernel.
I suspect the 3ware controllers are the possible problem factor here.
Hardware raid 5 on the 3ware cards was not always the strongest point of
the card although the newer 7xxx series is reported to be much better.
Have you tried using a newer driver?0
Cheers
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