Re: Areca hardware RAID / first-ever SCSI bus reset: am I about to lose this disk controller?

2012-10-01 Thread Pierre Beck
On 02.10.2012 00:53, Chris Murphy wrote: On Oct 1, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Pierre Beck wrote: It's particularly annoying when in RAID and the disk could've simply been kicked within few seconds. Something that needs improvement IMHO. Except that while this helps with faster recovery, you'

Re: Areca hardware RAID / first-ever SCSI bus reset: am I about to lose this disk controller?

2012-10-01 Thread Pierre Beck
Check the SMART values of the disks if possible. Watch for command timeouts and the usual bad sector stuff. I've had similar issues with Adaptec controllers. Bad disks seem to cause havoc. The outstanding operation isn't answered within [SCSI Timeout, default 30, /sys/block/sdX/device/timeout]

Re: 3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits

2012-10-01 Thread Pierre Beck
C? They won't know what hit them when their new PC crawls because disk is trashed. Greetings, Pierre Beck On 30.09.2012 20:52, H. Peter Anvin wrote: On 09/30/2012 02:38 AM, Pierre Beck wrote: Hi, there seems to be a bug in either ext4 or VM code triggered with 16 GB memory when compiled wit

Re: [BISECTED] snd-hda-intel audio distortion in Linus' current tree

2012-09-30 Thread Pierre Beck
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3.6-rc7 32-bit PAE miscalculates dirty page limits

2012-09-30 Thread Pierre Beck
access. A quick cure was to set dirty_bytes and dirty_background_bytes to sane values, overriding the ratios. An educated guess: the result of dirty_ratio calculation is stored as an unsigned 32-bit integer and overflows? Greetings, Pierre Beck -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line