From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Steve Hindle" Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Hardlock with 2.6.1[678] on Abit AI7, ICH5 + XFS, SATA under heavy I/O load Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 22:27:18 -0700 Message-ID: <9a0545880610042227i7960737alb49480c609cff802@mail.gmail.com> References: <9a0545880610041828w658d7aaco20348d54e9321d8f@mail.gmail.com> <20061005043154.GA11811@melbourne.sgi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.185]:47052 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751117AbWJEF1U (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Oct 2006 01:27:20 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id o25so687253nfa for ; Wed, 04 Oct 2006 22:27:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20061005043154.GA11811@melbourne.sgi.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-ide-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ide@vger.kernel.org To: David Chinner Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-ide@vger.kernel.org On 10/4/06, David Chinner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 06:28:35PM -0700, Steve Hindle wrote: > > Hello, > > > > My machine is hardlocking with recent kernels (including 2.6.18-mm3) > > under heavy I/O load (for instance, just compiling the kernel is > > enough to lock the machine). No bug,oops,or panic and nothing in the > > system logs. > > Does it happen on any other filesystems? Is this your root filesystem > that is hanging? > no, its not my root - but my other partitions are also XFS and are on the same drive... so not really any way to check ATM. > Journalling filesystems shouldn't get corrupted by hangs or > crashes... I understood this in theory - but was rather pleased theory == practice. However, I didn't even notice a 'not unmounted cleanly' message during subsequent boots? I might just have missed it though - Debian's boot has gotten much 'chattier' over the years... Steve