On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 02:27:14PM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > I wonder if this is the reason my main file server has been locking up > solid under 2.6.29 or newer kernels lately, but 2.6.28 is rock solid. > Since it's my main file server at home, and with my home dir NFS > mounted from it onto another system, it's been hard to catch. I spent > some time fiddling around getting netconsole setup, but then I ran out > of time. Unless you have your partition mounted with the "sync" mount option (which has negative performance implifications; it makes sense for a mail queue directory, but not necessarily for a general purpose file server) or you have a directory chattr'ed with the sync flag, probably not... If you want to try it, though, the patch is available here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=21436 > If someone could send me the patch, I'll apply it and see how well > 2.6.29.[34] works, and whether or not 2.6.30-rcN works as well. > Reproducing the problem was pretty easy for me. Anything on the console? Any oops messages, or soft lockup warnings? What filesystem(s) are you using? - Ted -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-testers" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
