Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 14 May 1999 08:16:10 +0200 (CEST) | From | (Christian Balzer) | Subject | Re: Something wrong in 2.2.8????? |
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Michael H. Warfield wrote: >Pete Clements enscribed thusly: [FS corruption after 2.2.8 new buffer code croaks] > > Now... With that noise out of my system... > It did cost me about 4 hours to recover from a similar event here, see my other email in the "OOPS bdflush" thread. Boy, will I wait my usual 1-2 weeks before testing new _stable_ kernels again...
> Having lost half of my mailbox, it became more difficult to reproduce. > I can easily reproduce it with a simple bonnie (-s 300 in that case, your millage may vary) and when it gets to "writing intelligently" the waste product hits the fan...
> After verifying that I could still blow it up on command, I commented >out "update" out of my inittab and rebooted. This was based on remarks in >the bdflush rewrite thread. > > I was now unable to reproduce the problem after more that an hour of >trying. It also felt like the system was MUCH more responsive when I was >running the torture test. > > I then reenabled the update line in inittab and rebooted. > > I was able to reproduce the hang in less than five minutes. > Actually I could reproduce with and w/o update running, so it looks much more like a generic race condition in the new buffer code.
Dewa,
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