On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Steve Cousins wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it at > > the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time > > and it works. Not sure where the bug lies, but yeah I've seen that on 3 > > different machines! > > Can you tell us when the "right" time is or maybe what the "wrong" time is? > Also, is this kernel specific? Does it (increasing stripe_cache_size) work > with RAID6 too? > > Thanks, > > Steve > -- > ______________________________________________________________________ > Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email: cousins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu > Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Phone: (207) 581-4302 > > > The wrong time (for me anyway) is when/or around the time in which kernel is auto-detecting arrays/udev starts, when I put it there I get OOPSES all over the screen and it gets really nasty. Basically the best time appears to be right after the system has started up but I/O hasn't started hitting the array yet. Tricky, I know. Justin. - 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
