From: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
To: Marc Giger <gigerstyle@gmx.ch>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux on UltraSparcII E450
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 09:20:28 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040417132027.GE3647@phunnypharm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040417105303.7936e413@vaio.gigerstyle.ch>
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:53:03AM +0200, Marc Giger wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Last week I had the honor to install Linux on a E450 with 2 cpu's. All
> went fine at first. Long compiling sessions were no problem for the
> machine. Later we installed 16 additional SCSI disks and we built
> 4 x Soft-RAID5 groups with 4 disks each.
> After some time during the sync processes the machine stops responding.
> Simply dead. The same thing happens after every boot when the sync
> process is in action.
>
> My question now is: Is it a hardware or a kernel problem? I now it isn't
> a simple question with the given infos.
> Is it possible that the 4 parallel sync processes are to much for the
> SCSI (standard LSI) controllers?
> I assume that the kernel RAID5 code is stable on sparc?!
Try enabling some debug, like spinlock debug and such. See if that spits
out anything interesting.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-17 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-17 8:53 Linux on UltraSparcII E450 Marc Giger
2004-04-17 10:06 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-04-17 12:15 ` Marc Giger
2004-04-17 13:20 ` Ben Collins [this message]
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