Re: Linux 2.0.27 kernel crashing

Danny ter Haar (dth@cistron.nl)
1 Jan 1997 08:18:43 +0100

Jon Lewis <jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net> wrote:
>On Tue, 31 Dec 1996, Rob Allen wrote:
>
>> I have been experiencing problems with my usenet news server lately and I
>> think I finally found the cause, and hopefully someone here will recognize
>> Dec 28 17:56:53 news kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:11): ext2_find_entry:
>> bad entry in directory #79873: rec_len % != 0 - offset=0,
>> inode=1226980165, rec_len=16733, name_len=23123
>Whoa....dejanews...
>Dec 31 05:19:26 obi-wan kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:31):
>ext2_find_entry: bad entry in directory #697414: rec_len % != 0 -
>offset=3600, inode=707683375, rec_len=43694, name_len=44204
>Running 2.0.25 right now. 2.0.27 seems to cause problems for innd on it.

We have a split news setup.
One server at our NOC for a collecting feed and redistribution to
our customers with an expiry of one day and a "readers" server.

The gathering server is running a plain 2.0.27 without problems!
P5-133 , buslogic 946 with 2 x 2.1 gb quantum disks:
debian linux, inn 1.5

Expire messages:
expire begin Wed Jan 1 03:08:33 MET 1997: (-v1 -s -z/var/log/news/expire.rm)
Removed approximately 179094k
Article lines processed 299060
Articles retained 207441
Entries expired 91619
Files unlinked 114508
Old entries dropped 68413
Old entries retained 530158
expire end Wed Jan 1 05:03:25 MET 1997

Articles received by server
System Connects Offered Took Tk% Refuse Reject Accpt Elapsed
TOTALS 1108 179576 99082 100% 78782 1712 55% 163:45:57

Articles sent by innfeed
System Connects Offered Took Refuse Reject Accpt Elapsed
TOTALS 816 495089 395565 21327 4728 79% 193:04:18

Linux wormhole 2.0.27 #1 Thu Dec 12 08:47:16 MET 1996 i586
8:14am up 5 days, 17:04h, 2 users, load average: 0.11, 0.22, 0.24
ystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda1 19809 11979 6807 64% /
/dev/sda3 396549 150212 225857 40% /usr
/dev/sda5 79303 48365 26843 64% /tmp
/dev/sda7 914743 299813 567674 35% /var
/dev/sda6 594733 56478 507536 10% /var/lib/news
/dev/sdb1 1930523 783872 1043535 43% /var/spool/news

We did have some problems with scsi errors.
Reading the sources about old firmware in the buslogic, we disabled
the tagged queuing for the second harddisk.

I dont think 2.0.27 is unstable for us !

Our other newsserver is running 2.1.7 btw ;-)
I will change that today and try the 2.0.28 pre-patch
(ftp.cistron.nl/pub/os/linux/kernel/v2.0)

Best wishes for 1997

Danny

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