On Tue, 16 May 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> 1. You are using usb patches
For my mouse, yes
> 2. You are using raid patches
For all of my partitions, 'cause they are striped/mirrored on the
different disks.
> 3. You are using ide patches.
Because the machine is loaded, and I nedd DMA for all of the drives + I
have a CDROM too.
> It could be a bug in any of the above. It could be a problem with the disk.
> It could be a problem with the ram. It could be a problem with the cabling.
I do not know too much about the disk layout of ext2, but what I have
written about the fsck run makes me think it should be a kernel bug
(errors are somewhat consistent, like zeroed counts, and all blocks bitmap
diferring)
> It could be a bug in the mmainstream kernel.
I think so too, and that is why I am writing here.
> You can eliminate some of these by load testing the machine (memtest86
> then kernel building). Try running without the usb/raid patches. etc
I cannot run it w/o the patches, but the box is under heavy pressure all
the time, ~160 samba connections and ~80 NFS connections concurrently,
doing ~6.6MBytes/s sustained transfer rate on the eth. interface.
-- SaPE
Peter, Sasi <sape@sch.hu>
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