On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:45:03PM -0500, Shawn Usry wrote: > > On 10/20/2010 4:27 PM, Emmanuel Florac wrote: > >Le Wed, 20 Oct 2010 14:01:00 -0500 vous écriviez: > > > >>2. I did upgrade the firmware on the controller to a newer version > >>AFTER the issue appeared, hoping this would resolve it. Same results. > >> > >>At this point I'm leaning toward faulty hardware somewhere. > >Another possibility is a memory problem, possibly making the machine > >crash under heavy load; if most RAM is used as filesystem caching, this > >maybe may lead to apparently xfs related errors. You could try running > >memtest86+ on the system for a couple of hours. > > > Great minds think alike :) Actually I have indeed already run a > memtest86+ on the system which completed without a problem. > Loading up read/writes on other single disks on the system also > doesn't produce a problem. Just this one filesystem ;) It's a > stumper! Having some idea of the log messages generated by the crash - even if it is screen shorts via hand-held camera - might help us narrow down the cause. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ xfs mailing list xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx http://oss.sgi.com/mailman/listinfo/xfs