Hello, (probably a bit long mail, but i will try to describe what i did or tried)using ASRock Z77 Pro3 motherboard with Z77 chipset, 4xSATA WDC WD1002FAEX-00Z3A0 drives, Debian Linux (basic installation, no X or other services). Problem: any intense I/O to disk causes system to crash. Easiest method (for me) to reproduce (100% so far) problem - just do mkfs.ext2 /dev/sdb3 (any failsystem will work, the same goes for `dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1M`, just a bit slower). Before crash inode creation slows down, for ~10 seconds, then stops at all (and crash immediately).
What i tried:- first i noticed that system will crash with default debian kernel (2.6.32-5-amd64). This is only one kernel which writes something to message log, and crashes when writing inodes at count ~3250/7464. It writes info to /var/log/messages and console, system becomes unresponsive (kernel.panic from sysctl does not reboot system, same goes for software watchdog - you need to "manually" reboot system) - i recompiled current stable kernel (3.6.10) with CONFIG_DETECT_HUNG_TASK=y and CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC=y and re-tested. System hangs when writing inodes at ~3450/7464, no info on screen or syslog. System could be rebooted with `echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger` on another console, console is responsive, but any disk access will hung console. Sometimes (rarely) system becomes unresponsive, and reboots after timeout - i recompiled todays git kernel, recompiled with the same parameters. It hangs ~6400/7464 (note - goes much further than previous versions), but completely - does not reboot itself, does not respond to ping, only poweroff helps. Nothing in syslog, photo from screen will be attached with logs in next post (can't be scrolled up/down - so no info what happened earlier)
Observations:- system could be "alive" and working with low disk activity for long time (at least, more than week). But enough to do some disk I/O - crash (for example, copying bzip'ed kernel image from one place to another is enough to trigger crash) - disk type does not matter. I tried to attach Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 disk instead of WD - the same (i would say, it crashed even earlier, but didn't measured exactly) - SATA cables are replaced, system could run prime95 torture test for several hours - so i could say that RAM/CPU isn't a problem here - could be crashed with activity on any disk. I tried to make RAID10, LVM on top - crash; disassembled md array, tested with disk activity to _all_ disks separately - any disk activity could crash system - tested all "quick" solutions i could find on internet, including module params "acpi=off noapic", "libata.noacpi=1", "libata.force=1.5Gbps", some other woodoo magic like disabling write cache or disabling NCQ - no difference (probably tested something more, like 'norst', i forgot already) Attached zip'ed logs - one from 2.6 kernel (with trace), another from today's git kernel (entire log from boot to crash, next line in log starts again with rsyslog...). Also, screen images from "dead" system (nothing in logs, and i can't scroll up):
- todays git kernel: http://i49.tinypic.com/js0xl2.jpg - 3.6.10 on shutdown (crashed): http://i47.tinypic.com/2exv4fr.jpgBecause this problem is easily reproducible - i could try to get as much information as i can, if you ask. Minor problem - i do not have physical access to system, so if tests should be done with latest kernel (which hangs completely and needs access to system for restart) - i can do tests only at day, when others could access and reboot system.
Thanks.
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