On Tue Sep 22, 2009 at 07:59:45AM -0700, Lee Howard wrote:
> Majed B. wrote:
> > I must have missed that part. It may not work for your case, but worth trying.
> >
> > Perhaps Neil Brown, or someone involved could shed some light on this.
> >
> > If I remember correctly, those soft lockups were harmless anyway.
> >
>
> Not harmless for production use. Yes, data is not harmed, and yes, the
> problem state does recover when the data-check finishes, but during the
> data-check the system is virtually unresponsive and all other use of the
> system is stalled.
>
Are you sure this is caused by these soft lockups, and that you're not
just running with too high a /sys/block/mdX/md/sync_speed_max setting?
I've had issues with this on some servers, where the I/O demand for the
sync/check is causing the system to become totally unresponsive.
Cheers,
Robin
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