From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Freezes during disk IO on Asus M2NPV-VM nVidia chipset - raid 0 related?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:54:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061030225455.GM27968@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4546400C.1090500@perkel.com>
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:10:20AM -0800, Marc Perkel wrote:
> Trying to track down my remaining lockup problem with Linux using my
> first AMD AM2 motherboard. It's been a nightmare, but it's getting
> better. but I think it might be a Linux bug. But I have some specific
> info that might lead to something.
>
> This motherboard use nVidia GeForce 6150 chipset
> The computer seems to only freeze up during disk IO - specifically when
> downloading using rsync.
> It also seems to lock up when writing data to a RAID 0 EXT3 filesystem.
> I'm using software raid.
>
> I'm currently running the stock Fedora Core 6 kernel based on 1.6.18.1
A stock ftp.kernel.org kernel with as many debug options as possible
turned on might be a better choice.
> After several lockups I tried reformatting the partition to see if
> perhaps the data was so screwed up that it was the problem. The reformat
> didn't fix it.
>
> It also seems that when it does crash that recovery isn't as clean as it
> usually is. It seems that I have to run e2fsck manually more often than
> usual and that it find more things to fix. Other drives that are not
> part of raid seem to not have this issue.
>
> I hope this is enough information to help track this down.
Unfortunately, it doesn't help at all.
Please send a complete "dmesg -s 1000000".
Please follow Lee's suggestion and report any messages you see (a
photo with a digital camera is OK).
cu
Adrian
--
"Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
"Only a promise," Lao Er said.
Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-30 22:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-30 18:10 Linux Freezes during disk IO on Asus M2NPV-VM nVidia chipset - raid 0 related? Marc Perkel
2006-10-30 22:16 ` Lee Revell
2006-10-30 22:54 ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-10-30 23:46 ` Sergio Monteiro Basto
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