Re: Software raid 5 with XFS causing strange lockup problems

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>]

Ian Williamson wrote:
> I am running XFS on a software raid 5. I am doing this with a PCI
> controller with 4 SATA drives attached to it.
> 
> When I play my music over the network through Samba from the raid
> volume my audio client will often loose the connection. This isn't
> remediated until I restart the machine with the raid controller or
> wait for an unknown amount of time. Either way, the problem still
> persists.
> 
> Initially I though that this was Samba's fault, but I think it may be
> xfs related due to what was in /var/log/messages:
> 
> Oct  9 22:37:33 ionlinux kernel: [105657.982701] Modules linked in:
> serio_raw i2c_nforce2 pcspkr forcedeth r8169 nvidia_agp agpgart
> i2c_core psmouse sg evdev xfs dm_mod sd_mod generic sata_nv ide_disk
> ehci_hcd ide_cd cdrom sata_sil ohci_hcd usbcore libata scsi_mod
> ide_generic processor
> Oct  9 22:37:33 ionlinux kernel: [105657.982985] EIP:
> 0060:[<f8a1353e>]    Not tainted VLI
> Oct  9 22:37:33 ionlinux kernel: [105657.982986] EFLAGS: 00010246   
> (2.6.18 #1)

It looks like you've edited this a bit too much, what came before this in the logs?

Are you running on 4k stacks, out of curiosity?

-Eric