Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 21:12:13 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-( Message-ID: <p06240801c58daff9e513@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <E1LL6dg-0007CN-DI@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> References: <E1LL6dg-0007CN-DI@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>
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At 1:58 AM +0000 1/9/09, Pete French wrote: >I have a number of HP 1U servers, all of which were running 7.0 >perfectly happily. I have been testing 7.1 in it's various incarnations >for the last couple of months on our test server and it has performed >perfectly. > >So the last two days I have been round upgrading all our servers, knowing >that I had run the system stably on identical hardware for some time. > >Since then I have starte seeing machines lock up. This always happens >under heavy disc load. When I bring the machine back up then sometimes >it fails to fsck due to a partialy truncated inode. The locksup appear >to be disc related [...] One of my friends is also having trouble with lockups on two machines he had upgraded to 7.1. Also seems to be related to heavy disk I/O, although I'm not sure the symptoms are the same as what you report. Both machines had been running 7.0-release without trouble. On at least one of the systems, he's also working with (what I consider) very large file systems (over 2 TB). Both machines are using a 3ware controller with its RAID. I realize that isn't much to go on, but it suggests that there is some problem wider than just your (Pete's) usage. I think his situation is such that lockups like this are simply not acceptable, and the last I heard he was reverting back to 7.0-release. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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