From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932964AbWF2Vys (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:54:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932966AbWF2VyH (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:54:07 -0400 Received: from damned.travellingkiwi.com ([81.6.239.220]:13867 "EHLO damned.travellingkiwi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932955AbWF2Vxx (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:53:53 -0400 From: Hamish Organization: TravellingKiwi Systems To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: SATA hangs... Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:53:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200606232134.42231.hamish@travellingkiwi.com> <20060624100957.73fff572@localhost> <200606242330.48248.hamish@travellingkiwi.com> In-Reply-To: <200606242330.48248.hamish@travellingkiwi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3243964.Abg2gdrLgO"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200606292253.50409.hamish@travellingkiwi.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart3243964.Abg2gdrLgO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday 24 June 2006 23:30, you wrote: > On Saturday 24 June 2006 09:09, you wrote: > > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:36:59 +0200 > > > > Paolo Ornati wrote: > > > > > I'm having problems with a SATA drive on an ASUS A8V deluxe > > > > > motherboard under kernel 2.6.17... In fact it's happened under > > > > > every (Vanilla) kernel I've ever run on this server (Back to > > > > > 2.6.14). (It's just over a year old. It didn't used to experience > > > > > the same load as it does now, so I'm currently assuming it's load > > > > > related... > > > > > > I think I've hit something similar yesterday, with 2.6.17.1... > > > > I was thinking that I've recently enabled CONFIG_PREEMPT (usually I > > was just using CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY). > > > > Maybe is totally unrelated but... for Hamish: what is/was your PREEMPT > > config? > > Hmm... > > damned stats # gzip -dc /proc/config.gz |grep -i preempt > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set > # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set > CONFIG_PREEMPT=3Dy > CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=3Dy > CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=3Dy > damned stats # > > I also tried 2.6.17-mm but that dies in reiserfs claiming a bug in bitmap= =2Ec > > I'll try a re-compile of 2.7.17.1 vanilla with no pre-empt & see how it > goes. > Well, I turned off pre-empt, and haven't struck a problem since in almost a= =20 week. H --nextPart3243964.Abg2gdrLgO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEpEvuwRzSEdQQDooRAuvgAKCMm3/tHTopeaEq1DSl9PZIe2/XZACgnChv XYsMkwItZ17eNCfUPU6ooWo= =vpeK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3243964.Abg2gdrLgO--