On 22.07.2010 09:47, Shawn Bohrer wrote: I can't help with your exact problem, but this reminds me of a quite similar looking problem i have. We have a linux-computer with samba to act as a fileserver for a few Windows-Clients and ever since kernel 2.6.26 (Never happend with 2.6.25) the server randomly "hangs" for a few seconds (Which is more of a problem that drives people crazy). It takes about 1-2 weeks for the symtoms to show and only a reboot of the computer "cures" it (for another 1-2 weeks). Because of the long incubation period and the whole slew of subsystems (and samba) involded, i never had the drive to debug this, as a "quick" reboot every 1-2 weeks only takes about 2 minutes. With "whole slew of subsystems" in mean: Hardware: SATA on onboard-controller (Intel G41-Chipset(ICH7) with PIIX-driver, because BIOS is crippled and doesn't allow AHCI) (Hardware itself is unlikly to be be at fault, because a few month ago the complete computer and HDDs were switched, but the problem persisted) Kernel: Currently 2.6.32(-5, Debian SID), first seen with 2.6.26 (vanilla) Drivers/Filesystem: md(RAID1), loop-aes, XFS (I tried logbufs=8,logbsize=256k,nobarrier, no apparent changes. I'm not 100% sure if i tried other schedulers, but i think i did) And finally Samba on top. As i had to reboot the computer just yesterday, and will have to power down the server over the weekend because we are moving, it will be at least 2-3 weeks before i anticipate the problem to resurface. In case anybody has an idea what i could do to identify and/or isolate the root-cause, i'm open for suggestions. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs
