On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 22:34:21 +0800 Du Jun <dujun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Their's no dmesg information at all before the hang. The system just > hangs suddenly without any kernel printk or oops. > > mdadm version is debian lenny version 2.6.7.2-3 > > I will get mdadm -E & mdadm -D informations tomorrow but I doubt they > are useful. Probably not, but they wouldn't hurt either. What would really help is if you could capture the result of sysrq-T which I accept might be a challenge depending on how hard the machine really has frozen. Also, make sure the LOCKUP_DETECTOR config options are set, and wait a few minutes after the hand to see if something pops up. I'll try to see if I can reproduce, but I don't have 16 disks so it may not work. NeilBrown > > Johnson > on 2010/11/24 22:19, Mathias Burén wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I suppose a few logs would be interesting. (dmesg, mdadm -E (hdds), > > mdadm -D md10, zcat /proc/config.gz, mdadm version) > > > > Regards, > > // Mathias > > > > 2010/11/24 Du Jun<dujun@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > > >> Hi, > >> We just quick tested the raid stability under the vanilla 2.6.36 kernel > >> and got an unstable result. > >> > >> first, we create a raid5 array using 16 sata disks: > >> > >> mdadm -C /dev/md10 -l 5 -n 16 /dev/sd[b-q] > >> > >> then use dd to stress the io: > >> > >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/md10 bs=1M > >> > >> After a while, usually several minutes, the system hangs. It looks like > >> some kind of kernel deadlock. ping to this machine could get timely > >> response, however, any other process just hangs. > >> > >> It is easily reproducible and everytime the test result is a system hang. > >> > >> Johnson > >> > >> -- > >> 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 > >> > >> > > -- > > 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 > > > > > > > > -- > 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 -- 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