Hello Janne, nice to not be alone ... We did some things during the last accident: - Changed the alive time of buffer to 3 seconds from 30 - Started the wakeup of the kupdate daemon every 0,6 seconds These both things are described in http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-fs8 (search for the work kupdate) We also changed from data=ordered to data=journal (seems to be better for database usage). We did not tested since the changes where made because some persons are working on the machine (and after working a few weekends in a line I got a little bit tired). Annother try worth in my eyes would be a bigger journal. Our current journal is 33 MB on a 40 and a 60 MB disk. If its a journal overflow may be 500 MB will solve the problem. As I understand from your mail it is not a kernel problem of kernel 2.4.10. Klaus Janne Pikkarainen wrote: >> As we tried 3 of these extents in one run of the extent utility, >> the system hangs without any error message. The master console was >> also dead; we could enter root but the password prompt never comes up. > > > Wow. Sounds just like the problem we currently have with one of our servers > running Red Hat 7.2. It's hard to say if it's really an ext3-related > problem but anyway the server freezes whenever it wants to do it. The > same symptoms than above - login prompt allows me to enter root but the > password prompt never appears. If I'm already logged in, I may be able > to use commands which are already loaded in memory. Stuff which has to > be loaded from hd never loads. > > Physically the server seems to be blinking it hard drive lights as > normally. > > And the server... > > - IBM xSeries 330 > - Red Hat 7.2 > - 1 GB RAM > - 200 GB HD w/ ext3 > - IBM ServeRAID 4M > - 2x Adaptec 7899P > > The latest Red Hat cooked kernel I tried (2.4.9-21) gives something like > 1-6 hours of uptime. My own home-cooked and salted kernels are able to > run our server something like 10-40 days before crashing, no more. At > least not yet. :-) The latest kernel I have compiled myself is > 2.4.18-pre9 and it's having the same symptoms... > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Ext3-users@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users >
