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* Re: sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24
@ 2008-03-29  0:22 Luis Sousa
  2008-03-29 17:09 ` Parag Warudkar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Luis Sousa @ 2008-03-29  0:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff Garzik; +Cc: linux-kernel


--- Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa@yahoo.com.br> escreveu:

> --- Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> escreveu:
> 
> > Luis Sousa wrote:
> > > I've been having consistent hard system freezes for a
> > > long time, every 2 days or so, and finally decided to
> > > move to the most recent stable kernel. Unfortunatelly
> > > that didn't fix it. The freezes seem to be io-related;
> > > they started since I moved my drive to sata. They seem
> > > to happen mostly when there's an io-intensive operation,
> > > like extracting a big archive; a reboot is needed.
> > 
> > We need more info, namely full 'dmesg', 'lspci -v', and your kernel config.
> > 
> > Also, make /sure/ you are not running closed-source modules known to 
> > crash the system, like ndiswrapper or nvidia graphics driver.
> > 
> > 	Jeff
> 
> I'm quite sure.

Oops. My bad. I seem to actually be running the "nv" driver in xorg.conf. 
I had searched for "nvidia" before and so thought I had cleared that.
I didn't recall manually installing it this time. I'll try not using it.

--
Luis


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* Re: sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24
@ 2008-04-12  7:30 devzero
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: devzero @ 2008-04-12  7:30 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: ls.luis_sousa; +Cc: linux-kernel

did you try UP-kernel or tried booting with "nosmp" and does that make any difference ?

>This is a 2-processor CPU:
># cat /proc/cpuinfo 
>processor       : 0
>vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
>cpu family      : 15
>model           : 4
>model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz

most likely this just "appears" as 2-way processor , but iŽm quite sure this is just a single-core CPU, but with HyperThreading enabled.


regards
roland



List:       linux-kernel
Subject:    sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24
From:       Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa () yahoo ! com ! br>
Date:       2008-03-28 22:24:48
Message-ID: 739784.81690.qm () web46009 ! mail ! sp1 ! yahoo ! com
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Hello,

I've been having consistent hard system freezes for a
long time, every 2 days or so, and finally decided to
move to the most recent stable kernel. Unfortunatelly
that didn't fix it. The freezes seem to be io-related;
they started since I moved my drive to sata. They seem
to happen mostly when there's an io-intensive operation,
like extracting a big archive; a reboot is needed.

Nothing ever shows up in the logs.

I'm using the following drive:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       MAXTOR STM3160215AS                     
        Serial Number:      6RA2TMJ4
        Firmware Revision:  3.AAD   

Linux localhost 2.6.24.4 #4 SMP Fri Mar 28 14:51:50 BRT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

This is a 2-processor CPU:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 3013.697
cache size      : 1024 KB

(same goes for processor : 1)

Sincerely,
--
Luis Sousa
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* Re: sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24
@ 2008-04-12  0:59 Luis Sousa
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Luis Sousa @ 2008-04-12  0:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Luis Sousa, Jeff Garzik; +Cc: linux-kernel


--- Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa@yahoo.com.br> escreveu:

> --- Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa@yahoo.com.br> escreveu:
> > 
> > --- Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa@yahoo.com.br> escreveu:
> > 
> > > --- Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> escreveu:
> > > 
> > > > Luis Sousa wrote:
> > > > > I've been having consistent hard system freezes for a
> > > > > long time, every 2 days or so, and finally decided to
> > > > > move to the most recent stable kernel. Unfortunatelly
> > > > > that didn't fix it. The freezes seem to be io-related;
> > > > > they started since I moved my drive to sata. They seem
> > > > > to happen mostly when there's an io-intensive operation,
> > > > > like extracting a big archive; a reboot is needed.
> > > > 
> > > > We need more info, namely full 'dmesg', 'lspci -v', and your kernel config.
> > > > 
> > > > Also, make /sure/ you are not running closed-source modules known to 
> > > > crash the system, like ndiswrapper or nvidia graphics driver.
> > > > 
> > > > 	Jeff
> > > 
> > > I'm quite sure.
> 
> It seems I have a failing RAM problem.


> I'll try fixing that and if it still keeps crashing, I'll be in touch.
> 
> --
> Luis Sousa

OK, it's definitely not the RAM; I tried three new RAM modules, and the
crashes continue with all of them. Sometimes the sysrq keys work, usually
only for rebooting. Not sure it's sata, but I'm clueless here. Still
seems like a vm thing to me.

--
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* Re: sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24
@ 2008-04-05  5:44 Luis Sousa
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Luis Sousa @ 2008-04-05  5:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff Garzik; +Cc: linux-kernel

--- Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa@yahoo.com.br> escreveu:
> 
> --- Luis Sousa <ls.luis_sousa@yahoo.com.br> escreveu:
> 
> > --- Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> escreveu:
> > 
> > > Luis Sousa wrote:
> > > > I've been having consistent hard system freezes for a
> > > > long time, every 2 days or so, and finally decided to
> > > > move to the most recent stable kernel. Unfortunatelly
> > > > that didn't fix it. The freezes seem to be io-related;
> > > > they started since I moved my drive to sata. They seem
> > > > to happen mostly when there's an io-intensive operation,
> > > > like extracting a big archive; a reboot is needed.
> > > 
> > > We need more info, namely full 'dmesg', 'lspci -v', and your kernel config.
> > > 
> > > Also, make /sure/ you are not running closed-source modules known to 
> > > crash the system, like ndiswrapper or nvidia graphics driver.
> > > 
> > > 	Jeff
> > 
> > I'm quite sure.

It seems I have a failing RAM problem. I ran memtest86+ and got lots of
errors in test #7 (random number sequence), in the whole address space.

Looks like that might be the cause of the lockups and also some weird
kernel oops'es which I've been experiencing.

I'll try fixing that and if it still keeps crashing, I'll be in touch.

--
Luis Sousa


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* sata io freeze, 2.6.18 and also 2.6.24
@ 2008-03-28 22:24 Luis Sousa
  2008-03-28 22:46 ` Jeff Garzik
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 8+ messages in thread
From: Luis Sousa @ 2008-03-28 22:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

Hello,

I've been having consistent hard system freezes for a
long time, every 2 days or so, and finally decided to
move to the most recent stable kernel. Unfortunatelly
that didn't fix it. The freezes seem to be io-related;
they started since I moved my drive to sata. They seem
to happen mostly when there's an io-intensive operation,
like extracting a big archive; a reboot is needed.

Nothing ever shows up in the logs.

I'm using the following drive:

ATA device, with non-removable media
        Model Number:       MAXTOR STM3160215AS                     
        Serial Number:      6RA2TMJ4
        Firmware Revision:  3.AAD   

Linux localhost 2.6.24.4 #4 SMP Fri Mar 28 14:51:50 BRT 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

This is a 2-processor CPU:

# cat /proc/cpuinfo 
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 15
model           : 4
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
stepping        : 9
cpu MHz         : 3013.697
cache size      : 1024 KB

(same goes for processor : 1)

Sincerely,
--
Luis Sousa


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