From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda1.sgi.com [192.48.157.11]) by oss.sgi.com (8.14.3/8.14.3/SuSE Linux 0.8) with ESMTP id o9L64tmm197103 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:04:56 -0500 Received: from mail.internode.on.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id AF3B0F3C2BF for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.internode.on.net (bld-mail12.adl6.internode.on.net [150.101.137.97]) by cuda.sgi.com with ESMTP id Qyk1CHizEkuVOkya for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:06:05 +1100 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: Interesting possible XFS crash condition Message-ID: <20101021060605.GS32255@dastard> References: <4CBE887F.6020506@dolphinlogic.com> <201010201012.39778@zmi.at> <4CBF3C6C.2020803@dolphinlogic.com> <20101020232758.51ac507a@galadriel.home> <4CBFC54F.8030403@dolphinlogic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4CBFC54F.8030403@dolphinlogic.com> List-Id: XFS Filesystem from SGI List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com Errors-To: xfs-bounces@oss.sgi.com To: Shawn Usry Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.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 =E9criviez: > > > >>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 _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@oss.sgi.com http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs