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From: Du Jun <dujun@perabytes.com>
To: "Mathias Burén" <mathias.buren@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid related kernel hang in 2.6.36
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:34:21 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CED226D.6090602@perabytes.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinfbPDQhmKRVibUv+Rm50wDkGizeYLGXQqY_xOu@mail.gmail.com>

Their's no dmesg information at all before the hang. The system just 
hangs suddenly without any kernel printk or oops.

mdadm version is debian lenny version 2.6.7.2-3

I will get mdadm -E & mdadm -D informations tomorrow but I doubt they 
are useful.

Johnson
on 2010/11/24 22:19, Mathias Burén  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I suppose a few logs would be interesting. (dmesg, mdadm -E (hdds),
> mdadm -D md10, zcat /proc/config.gz, mdadm version)
>
> Regards,
> // Mathias
>
> 2010/11/24 Du Jun<dujun@perabytes.com>:
>    
>> Hi,
>> We just quick tested the raid stability under the vanilla 2.6.36 kernel
>> and got an unstable result.
>>
>> first, we create a raid5 array using 16 sata disks:
>>
>> mdadm -C /dev/md10 -l 5 -n 16 /dev/sd[b-q]
>>
>> then use dd to stress the io:
>>
>> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md10 bs=1M
>>
>> After a while, usually several minutes, the system hangs. It looks like
>> some kind of kernel deadlock. ping to this machine could get timely
>> response, however, any other process just hangs.
>>
>> It is easily reproducible and everytime the test result is a system hang.
>>
>> Johnson
>>
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-24 14:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-24 13:48 raid related kernel hang in 2.6.36 Du Jun
2010-11-24 14:19 ` Mathias Burén
2010-11-24 14:34   ` Du Jun [this message]
2010-11-24 20:01     ` Neil Brown
2010-11-24 21:15       ` Carlos Carvalho
2010-11-25  3:12       ` dujun
2011-02-10 16:28         ` Iordan Iordanov
2011-02-11 15:52           ` Iordan Iordanov

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