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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: J Sloan <joe@tmsusa.com>
Cc: linux kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: 2.5.8 final - another data point
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 00:27:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CBA80C7.467FA654@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3CB9EF57.6010609@tmsusa.com> <3CBA6943.4000701@tmsusa.com> <3CBA74A6.3080407@tmsusa.com>

J Sloan wrote:
> 
> FWIW -
> 
> One other observation was the numerous
> syslog entries generated during the test,
> which were as follows:
> 
> Apr 14 20:40:35 neo kernel: invalidate: busy buffer
> Apr 14 20:41:15 neo last message repeated 72 times
> Apr 14 20:44:41 neo last message repeated 36 times
> Apr 14 20:45:24 neo last message repeated 47 times
> 

If that is happening during the dbench run, then something
is wrong.

What filesystem and I/O drivers are you using?  LVM?
RAID?

Please replace that line in fs:buffer.c:invalidate_bdev()
with a BUG(), or show_stack(0), send the ksymoops output.

Thanks.

-

  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-15  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-14 21:06 2.5.8 final - J Sloan
2002-04-15  5:46 ` 2.5.8 final - another data point J Sloan
2002-04-15  6:35   ` J Sloan
2002-04-15  7:27     ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-04-15  8:02       ` J Sloan
2002-04-15  7:18   ` Andrew Morton
2002-04-15  8:14     ` J Sloan
2002-04-15 14:15 ` 2.5.8 final - Luigi Genoni
2002-04-15 14:55   ` David S. Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-04-16 12:42 2.5.8 final - another data point rwhron
2002-04-16 18:31 ` J Sloan
2002-04-16 21:48 rwhron
2002-04-16 22:02 ` Andrew Morton

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