I checked again. Messages of this sort seem to be appearing on both of my systems. They seem correlated to periods of high nfs (server) activity. I guess this rules out hardware problems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Smith (301) 405-2152 Department of Physics asmith@umdgrb.umd.edu University of Maryland College Park, MD 20742-4111 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Sat, 23 Feb 2002, Andy Smith wrote: > > I found a bunch of these lines in my messages file. Should I > be concerned? > > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 81780136 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 82982288 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 49226168 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 60310160 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 21148760 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 23013592 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 24876368 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 64538568 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 65070760 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 64311392 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 65250472 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 26975064 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 66232440 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 67883736 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 30252256 > raid5: multiple 0 requests for sector 69281776 > > My system is a dual 1.4GHz AMD system with a tyan tiger mobo. > the md disk is a raid5 array containing 8 160GB maxtor ide drives > connected to 2 controller cards. The system runs redhat 7.2 with > the 2.4.17-0.16smp rawhide kernel. The kernel has the ide patch > for that makes udma 133 stuff work. The system is one of 2 identical > computers. Only this one has the problem. I've noticed no performance > differenced between the two. > > Thanks -Andy > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Andrew Smith (301) 405-2152 > Department of Physics asmith@umdgrb.umd.edu > University of Maryland > College Park, MD 20742-4111 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html