Re: Simple script that locks up my box with recent kernels

Jens Axboe
2006-11-24T09:46:51Z

On Fri, Nov 24 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> On 24/11/06, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> wrote:
> >On Fri, Nov 24 2006, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> >> > Does the box survive io intensive workloads?
> >>
> >> It seems to. It does get sluggish as hell when there is lots of disk I/O
> >but
> >> it seems to be able to survive.
> >> I'll try some more, with some IO benchmarks + various other stuff to see
> >> if I can get it to die that way.
> >
> >Just wondering if you have a marginal powersupply, perhaps.
> >
> It is a possibility, but I doubt it, since if I use a 2.6.17.x kernel
> then things are rock solid and I can't cause a lockup even if I leave
> my box building kernels in the background for days.

Since it triggers fairly quickly, any chance that you could try and
narrow it down to a specific version that breaks?

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Jens Axboe