From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: reiser4, crashing Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 10:24:05 -0800 Message-ID: <43BAC145.1050705@namesys.com> References: <43B81244.6080503@ursynow.2a.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <43B81244.6080503@ursynow.2a.pl> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Artur_Mak=F3wka?= Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Artur Mak=F3wka wrote: > Hello, i've been experiencing crashes for more than 2 months, and i'm > trying to figure out what is causing it. I sent to this list few > description of my problem, but you said it is not fault of reiser4. > > I still have to hard proofs, but my apt-get is still very slow, and > vim is also not very fast (even when my reiser4 partition is mounted > with noatime and nodiratime) > > last thing im noticing just before crash is this process: > > 965 root 10 -5 0 0 0 D 0.8 0.0 0:02.35 ent:hda2! > > when everything works fine, its also in memory but like this: > > root 965 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? S< 17:41 0:00 > [ent:hda2.] > > maybe its normal, but after i tried to get help on many forums, and > from many people, nobody really knows whats going on on my server. > > its kernel 2.6.14.3 with latest reiser4 patch for this kernel, and i > have these problems for more than 2 months, i've been stracing/gdbimg > all process on my server, especially apache as it is taking the most > resources, but i cant figure out anything strange. > > besides IOWait is huge, like 30% on procinfo. > > i heard in some situations it is possible for reiser4 developer to log > in on server and see everything. Since i've been trying to debug it > for so long, is it possible to do it in this situation? > > There is nothing in any logs, so i can't do anything, i could turn on > reiser4.debug but my machine is busy and i dont know how this will > affect the performance > > > > Please try the latest patch I sent to reiserfs-list. The guys are on Russian christmas vacation, so we won't really be able to be much help before the 12th, sorry.