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.
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Senior Systems Programmer or g...@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or dro...@rpi.edu
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