I have run into a similar lockup that I thought was due to a 2.5 GB Quantum hard drive. It does not seem to happen on a 550 MB Maxtor or 1.6 GB Western Digital Caviar. Symptom: a client is sending 500MB of data in about 5000 files to a server which is storing it immediately on an ext3 partition using ordered data mode. With the Quantum, about halfway through the backup, the ability to access data on the hard drive is gone. any process that accesses the hard drive after that appears to hang. I have used the Quantum recently in a different computer with the ext2 filesystem and this never occurred. The kernel is 2.4.19. Are any other people seeing a lockup when large amounts of data are written to an ext3 filesystem? -- Tom B. tbassel@HybridServers.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ralf Hildebrandt" <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de> To: <ext3-users@redhat.com> Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:15 AM Subject: Re: Periodic lockup problem with ext3 > On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 06:20:40PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > Which kernels, btw? If you've got the "sard" accounting, you may be > > able to find what activity is causing the problem. > > Tell me how to collect the data, and I'd be glad to hammer our server > to provide you with the data needed. > > -- > Ralf Hildebrandt (Im Auftrag des Referat V a) Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de > Charite Campus Mitte Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 > Referat V a - Kommunikationsnetze - Fax. +49 (0)30-450 570-916 > Ich habe manchmal den Eindruck, dass ein Telefon wesentlich komplizierter > zu bedienen ist als beispielsweise der ed(1). Vergleich doch einfach mal > "man ed" mit der Gebrauchsanleitung fuer ein modernes Telefon. > > > > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
