Interesting possible XFS crash condition

Emmanuel Florac eflorac at intellique.com
Wed Oct 20 16:27:58 CDT 2010


Le Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:01:00 -0500 vous écriviez:

> 2.  I did upgrade the firmware on the controller to a newer version 
> AFTER the issue appeared, hoping this would resolve it.  Same results.
> 
> At this point I'm leaning toward faulty hardware somewhere.

Another possibility is a memory problem, possibly making the machine
crash under heavy load; if most RAM is used as filesystem caching, this
maybe may lead to apparently xfs related errors. You could try running
memtest86+ on the system for a couple of hours.

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