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From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Shawn Usry <shawn@dolphinlogic.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Interesting possible XFS crash condition
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:06:05 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101021060605.GS32255@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CBFC54F.8030403@dolphinlogic.com>

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:45:03PM -0500, Shawn Usry wrote:
> 
> On 10/20/2010 4:27 PM, Emmanuel Florac wrote:
> >Le Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:01:00 -0500 vous écriviez:
> >
> >>2.  I did upgrade the firmware on the controller to a newer version
> >>AFTER the issue appeared, hoping this would resolve it.  Same results.
> >>
> >>At this point I'm leaning toward faulty hardware somewhere.
> >Another possibility is a memory problem, possibly making the machine
> >crash under heavy load; if most RAM is used as filesystem caching, this
> >maybe may lead to apparently xfs related errors. You could try running
> >memtest86+ on the system for a couple of hours.
> >
> Great minds think alike :)  Actually I have indeed already run a
> memtest86+ on the system which completed without a problem.
> Loading up read/writes on other single disks on the system also
> doesn't produce a problem.  Just this one filesystem ;)     It's a
> stumper!

Having some idea of the log messages generated by the crash - even
if it is screen shorts via hand-held camera - might help us narrow
down the cause.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@fromorbit.com

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-21  6:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-20  6:13 Interesting possible XFS crash condition Shawn Usry
2010-10-20  8:12 ` Michael Monnerie
2010-10-20 19:01   ` Shawn Usry
2010-10-20 21:27     ` Emmanuel Florac
2010-10-21  4:45       ` Shawn Usry
2010-10-21  6:06         ` Dave Chinner [this message]
2010-10-20  9:54 ` Emmanuel Florac

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