re[2]: Troubleshooting?

[Greg Freemyer <freemyer@NorcrossGroup.com>]

 >>  On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 03:01:21PM -0500, Greg Freemyer wrote:
 >>  > I've just installed the xfs 1.2pre3 kernel on my test server.
 >>  > 
 >>  > In the 3 hours I've had it installed, I've had 3 lockups.

 >>  That's not a very good record.  What kind of workload are you putting on
 >>  them?  Are you doing the same thing when they lock up?

Yes, I have a backup script that uses LVM snapshots.

I have found this to be problematic in the past, so I have been running it by hand, just to see if it will complete.

It takes about 5 minutes to do the backup.  (The data itself is not changing very much and they are incrementals.)

It succeeded the first several times I tried it, but since then I get lockups.  (I quit at 3).

 >>  > When these occur I do NOT get an OOPS nor do I get kicked into KDB.
 >>  [...]
 >>  > How do I proceed to troubleshoot from here?

 >>  I don't think KDB is compiled into the kernels.  You'll want to grab
 >>  the source and recompile with KDB.  

You are correct.  I am using the vanilla 2.4.19 patched with the 2 patches at 

ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/Release-1.2pre3/kernel_patches/

So I will get the kdb patch and add it in.

Thanks

 >>  -- 
 >>  Nate Straz                                              nstraz@sgi.com
 >>  sgi, inc                                           http://www.sgi.com/
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Greg Freemyer
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