On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 13:41 -0400, Ryan Anderson wrote: > On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 10:36 -0700, Mark Haverkamp wrote: > > Martin Drab found that he could get aacraid timeouts with high load on > > his controller / disk drive combinations. After some experimentation > > Mark Salyzyn has come up with a patch to reduce the default max_sectors > > to something that will keep the controller from being overloaded and > > will eliminate the timeout issues. > > Would hitting this timeout issue cause the container to go offline? Yes, the usual results of the overload timeouts are that the container goes offline. > > If so, I think this may fix the issues I was having 6 months ago. (We > ended up taking the aacraid controller out of our production > environment, in frustration.) > > I'll try to get some testing time in on this next week, though, the > problems I've run into were very hard to reproduce on demand. > -- Mark Haverkamp <markh@xxxxxxxx> - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
