Re: [BUG?] RAID sub system / tux

From: Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk (roy@karlsbakk.net)
Date: Thu Dec 13 2001 - 11:21:31 EST

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Just wanted to say I've reproduced the error in tux-D1.

thanks for any help

roy

On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote:

> hi all
>
> After testing this for a while, I'm quite sure there's some kind of bug
> that locks up I/O under heavy traffic.
>
> Hardware configuration:
>
> 1xAthlon 1133
> 1GB RAM
> 1 20G boot disk
> 2 120G ide drives on a promise ata133 (20269) controller
>
> Kernel: Vanilla 2.4.16 + tux-D0
>
> /etc/raidtab:
>
> raiddev /dev/md0
> raid-level 0
> nr-raid-disks 2
> persistent-superblock 0
> chunk-size 4096
>
> device /dev/hde
> raid-disk 0
> device /dev/hdg
> raid-disk 1
>
> IDE readahead setting:
>
> echo file_readahead:1024 > /proc/ide/hd[eg]/settings
> (I've tried down to 256 with no change.)
>
> file system: independant. I've tried with xfs and ext2 and get the same
> result.
>
> Testing:
> I make some 100 files, each ~1GB, and start ~100 wget processes to
> retrieve data from http://localhost/file-nnnn. Each process is retrieving
> a separate file, as to simulate the app. Usually, this works fine in the
> beginning, but after a while it all locks up, and the [TUX worker]
> (mother) process stops giving me any data, and starts using 100% system
> time. If I restart tux, I can do some data retrieval for some time, but
> then it locks up again. It's easily reproducable to just start, say, 50
> wget processes, killall wget, and then restart the 50 wget processes.
>
> Thanks for all help
>
> regards
>
> roy
>
> --
> Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA
>
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>
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-- Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk, MCSE, MCNE, CLS, LCA

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