From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list xfs); Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cuda.sgi.com (cuda2.sgi.com [192.48.168.29]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.10/8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id k9BEGXaG008473 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:16:33 -0700 Received: from sandeen.net (sandeen.net [209.173.210.139]) by cuda.sgi.com (Spam Firewall) with ESMTP id 2C73ED18D6AD for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2006 07:15:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <452CF770.5050902@sandeen.net> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 08:53:52 -0500 From: Eric Sandeen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: Software raid 5 with XFS causing strange lockup problems References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: xfs-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: xfs To: Ian Williamson Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com 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:[] 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