It comes back with a command prompt. trying a "simple command... ps, ls it does not return. The hard disks(hardware raid) light up. But it seems like noone is home. It doesn't oops in the 2.4.1-pre11 or 10. That is a good thing. -----Original Message----- From: Jens Axboe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 11:38 AM To: Nathan Black Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bolck Device problem or Compaq Smart array 2 problem? kernel -2.4 .0+ On Mon, Jan 29 2001, Nathan Black wrote: > Here are my results. > > 2.2.18- works fine. 24 MBytes/sec at 100+ gigabytes (16GB looped many times > ( lseek64(FD,SEEK_SET,0) )). > > 2.4.0 release SMP and Uniprocessor with NMI on- Kernel oops. I can reproduce > if necessary( oops at about 700 MB) sometimes more, sometime less. (In > BDFLUSH if I recall) > > 2.4.0 release UniProcessor NMI off- Works like the 2.2.18 > > 2.4.1-pre10 & 11- Works but system becomes unusable(requires reboot) after > completing. Unusable how? Does it hang or oops? Does nmi and up/smp make any differences in 2.4.1-preXX? I did some fixes for cpq after the blk merge in 2.4.1-pre, and got reports that it works. However, I don't have the necessary hardware to test myself. -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
