At 12:12 20/06/2005, Tony Byrne wrote:
Hello Bob,
>>can be hardware reasons for timeouts such as a dying disk or cable,
>>but I think we've eliminated these in our case. [etc]
BB> Don't ignore the possibility of failing controller hardware. We had
BB> comparable mysterious problems on a client system, causing a lot of
BB> head-scratching. Eventually the failure went hard and we had to
replace the
BB> motherboard.
I hear ya! However, moving back to an older kernel changes the
severity of the problem from a timeout every 2 to three minutes during
heavy activity to about 4 or 5 in a 24 hour period. That doesn't
sound like hardware to me.
It didn't to me either. Note the use of 'mysterious' :-)
I'd eliminated drives and cables, and then did it all over again when the
failure went hard, leaving the controller (or something else on the mobo).
With a new mobo all the annoying timeouts which I'd put down to driver
misbehaviour just went away.
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