Hi, On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 07:00:40AM -0500, Baines, Dominic wrote: > What is really puzzling me is that the ataraid device (/dev/ataraid/d0p1 mounted as /bigdisk) > 2x 123GB IBM Deskstar's is formated as ext2...top and ps etc... show a fight between kjournald and kupdated > and all searches for kjournald or kupdated fights suggest ext3 issues... :-) > > It's a RedHat 7.2, 2.4.7-10 custom kernal (I added in the Promise FastTrak support and HIGH mem support > to break through the c800MB barrier to use the whole 1GB RAM). How/why did you customise the kernel? The normal 2.4.7-10 already has HIGHMEM enabled, and has Promise Fasttrak support. What happens if you just use the current 2.4.9 errata kernels? There is an updated ataraid driver in those, supporting raid1. > Creates the array fine... I get a problem as soon as I attempt to populate it... > the box is a Athalon 1.4GHz and 1GB RAM, two other 60GB drives on IDE0 and IDE1 > > I get an almost total slowdown/shutdown and top shows the load going to 8 or nine with noone > logged in and console only.... Definitely try the new kernel --- if the fasttrak driver you added was failing to negotiate dma then you'd see serious slowdown when trying to do intensive IO. Cheers, Stephen
