On Tue, 13 Jun 2006, Bill Davidsen wrote: > Neil Brown wrote: > > > On Friday June 2, dean@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I've got one more long-shot I would like to try first. If you could > > > > backout that change to ll_rw_block, and apply this patch instead. > > > > Then when it hangs, just cat the stripe_cache_active file and see if > > > > that unplugs things or not (cat it a few times). > > > > > > > nope that didn't unstick it... i had to raise stripe_cache_size (from 256 > > > to 768... 512 wasn't enough)... > > > > > > -dean > > > > > > > Ok, thanks. > > I still don't know what is really going on, but I'm 99.9863% sure this > > will fix it, and is a reasonable thing to do. > > (Yes, I lose a ';'. That is deliberate). > > > > Please let me know what this proves, and thanks again for your > > patience. > > > > NeilBrown > > > [...snip...] > > Will that fix be in 2.6.17? also -- is it appropriate enough for 2.6.16.x? -dean - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html