So I'm giving up on mdadm/RAID1/WD10EARS Green Drive experiment for the next day or two. I've tried 4 times in the last two days to see if I can get this machine to boot using RAID. I keep running into crashes that look like the one below. I will try a non-RAID install and see if the hardware is stable and then come back to this later if appropriate. I was running a March, 2010 Gentoo install CD when this happened. One terminal doing bash completion of all things was hung with 1 CPU stuck in a 100% wait condition. New terminals continued to work if I didn't try to access the hard drive. I can run things from the CD. I have never seen a Gentoo install use nearly 2GB so something is really going wrong here. Cheers, Mark livecd ~ # cat /proc/mdstat Personalities : [raid0] [raid1] [raid6] [raid5] [raid4] [raid10] md3 : active raid1 sdc3[2] sdb3[1] sda3[0] 31463232 blocks [3/3] [UUU] unused devices: <none> livecd ~ # livecd ~ # top top - 06:24:39 up 1:28, 3 users, load average: 1.95, 2.52, 2.36 Tasks: 182 total, 1 running, 181 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie Cpu0 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu1 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu2 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu3 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu4 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu5 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id,100.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu6 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Cpu7 : 0.0%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni,100.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st Mem: 6105068k total, 1822336k used, 4282732k free, 172016k buffers Swap: 12602964k total, 0k used, 12602964k free, 1326360k cached livecd ~ # uname -a Linux livecd 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 #1 SMP Thu Mar 4 13:09:55 UTC 2010 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux livecd ~ # Adding 4200988k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:1 extents:1 across:4200988k Adding 4200988k swap on /dev/sdb2. Priority:1 extents:1 across:4200988k Adding 4200988k swap on /dev/sdc2. Priority:1 extents:1 across:4200988k kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on md3, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. INFO: task bash:17348 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. bash D ffff8800280d3e00 0 17348 17345 0x00000000 ffff8801afb1a670 0000000000000082 0000000000000000 00000000000000ff ffff8801a788f038 0000000000004000 000000000000fe00 000000000000c878 ffff8801af1e39b8 ffff8801af1e39d0 ffff8801af91c730 ffff8801afb1a8e8 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81209a92>] ? generic_make_request+0x220/0x26a [<ffffffff8109c248>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x40 [<ffffffff8137a4fc>] ? io_schedule+0x2d/0x3a [<ffffffff8109c283>] ? sync_buffer+0x3b/0x40 [<ffffffff8137a879>] ? __wait_on_bit+0x41/0x70 [<ffffffff8109c248>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x40 [<ffffffff8137a913>] ? out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6b/0x77 [<ffffffff810438b2>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23 [<ffffffff81132dff>] ? log_do_checkpoint+0x366/0x429 [<ffffffff81132f92>] ? __log_wait_for_space+0xd0/0x176 [<ffffffff81130e8e>] ? start_this_handle+0x2b2/0x2fb [<ffffffff8108a698>] ? filldir+0x0/0xb7 [<ffffffff8108a698>] ? filldir+0x0/0xb7 [<ffffffff8113102d>] ? journal_start+0x9a/0xce [<ffffffff810f3ae2>] ? ext3_dirty_inode+0x28/0x7b [<ffffffff8109745d>] ? __mark_inode_dirty+0x26/0xf5 [<ffffffff8108ebca>] ? touch_atime+0x10a/0x113 [<ffffffff8108a85c>] ? vfs_readdir+0x7a/0x97 [<ffffffff8108a9b1>] ? sys_getdents+0x7a/0xc1 [<ffffffff8100adab>] ? system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b INFO: task kjournald:17466 blocked for more than 120 seconds. "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. kjournald D ffff8800280bbe00 0 17466 2 0x00000000 ffff8801adf9d890 0000000000000046 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffff8801adcbde44 0000000000004000 000000000000fe00 000000000000c878 0000000800000050 ffff88017a99aa40 ffff8801af90a150 ffff8801adf9db08 Call Trace: [<ffffffff812dd063>] ? md_make_request+0xb6/0xf1 [<ffffffff8109c248>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x40 [<ffffffff8137a4fc>] ? io_schedule+0x2d/0x3a [<ffffffff8109c283>] ? sync_buffer+0x3b/0x40 [<ffffffff8137a879>] ? __wait_on_bit+0x41/0x70 [<ffffffff8109c248>] ? sync_buffer+0x0/0x40 [<ffffffff8137a913>] ? out_of_line_wait_on_bit+0x6b/0x77 [<ffffffff810438b2>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x23 [<ffffffff8109c637>] ? sync_dirty_buffer+0x72/0xaa [<ffffffff81131b8e>] ? journal_commit_transaction+0xa74/0xde2 [<ffffffff8103abcc>] ? lock_timer_base+0x26/0x4b [<ffffffff81043884>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e [<ffffffff81134804>] ? kjournald+0xe3/0x206 [<ffffffff81043884>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2e [<ffffffff81134721>] ? kjournald+0x0/0x206 [<ffffffff81043591>] ? kthread+0x8b/0x93 [<ffffffff8100bd3a>] ? child_rip+0xa/0x20 [<ffffffff81043506>] ? kthread+0x0/0x93 [<ffffffff8100bd30>] ? child_rip+0x0/0x20 livecd ~ # -- 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