From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Thompson Subject: Reiser4 hard locks. Volunteering for testing. Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 23:07:37 +0100 Message-ID: <411FDEA9.9020404@mapdesign.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Hi everyone, I've been trying out Reiser4 lately and I've experienced frequent system locks when there's lots of Disk IO activity. I'm happy to report debug info or whatever you guys need, you just need to let me know what to do and what to send you. I'm running gentoo linux unstable, with a patched 2.6.8.1 kernel, but I've had similar problems on the 2.6.7 and 2.6.6 kernels over the last month or so (I hadn't tried reiser4 for a very long time before that). I've tried renicing reiser4, as mentioned in some of the threads on the gentoo forums, but I'm not sure what else to try. My system is a Dual Athlon 1900++MP Asus a7m266-d with 1 gig of ram. I'm also using the ati kernel module, so the kernel is "tainted" I guess. i have a 20 gig reiser4 partition, recreated today with the latest libaal and reiser4progs (1.0.0). I've tried just copying files to it and it will just lock after an apparently random time, and the whole system locks, the magic sysrq key doesn't work (or after I do an emergency sync it fails to do anything else). From what I've seen of it when its not locking up its extremely fast and since you say Reiser4 needs more testers I'm volunteering. I'll run any kernel you want, turn on any debugging options whatever if it will help somebody track down the problem. Thanks in advance, Andrew