Hola David, > Maybe we could try to > see if all the ones experiencing this problem have something in > common. Agreed. > In our case the hanged server is: > > Dell PE2900 > 2 x X5470 at 3.33 8Gb RAM > SAS 6/iR Integrated RAID Controller > 7 x SEAGATE ST31000640SS > 1 x SEAGATE ST3300656SS > Debian testing > Kernel 2.6.26-2 > > server hanged when writing to a unified volume (7 x 1Tb + > namespace and system on the ST3300656SS) We have: IBM x3650 2 x X5460 at 3.16 32Gb RAM SATA Integrated RAID Controller 4 X 1TB SATA Hitachi HUA72101 RHEL 5.3 Kernel 2.6.18-128.4.1.el5xen Glusterfs 2.0.3 w/ patch 943 Couldn't be more different really! Server hangs when building software on a 100GB replicated volume, mounted with direct-io-mode=disabled. I have found that building: http://mirror.cs.wisc.edu/pub/mirrors/ghost/AFPL/GhostPCL/ghostpcl_1.40.tar.bz2 Reliably produces the hang in my case. Even just a grep -R of the source gives me the dreaded hang. Talk of XFS being stable is encouraging me to give it a shot. XFS isn't shipped with RHEL 5.3, but then neither is FUSE! (both should be in 5.4 though, finally). Thanks, Jeff.
