Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Jan 2000 13:40:04 -0500 | From | "Jason A . Fager" <> | Subject | Re: Corruption w/ 2.3.41-pre2 |
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On Sun, Jan 23, 2000 at 09:18:06PM -0800, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > There appears to be an "EXTREME" high load bug that is hard to catch. > Only journaling FS or HA and Performance test ever trigger this one. > If you can tell me how you created the situation to trigger this bug, > I will have a better idea how to catch and fix it.
I have a Tyan Thunderbolt, dual P3/450 (not overclocked), AIC-7896 SCSI. I have been experiencing the same problem, with 2.3.31, 2.3.39, and 2.3.40. The filesystems are ext2 with 4k inodes.
I first noticed it when trying to build Mozilla -- it untars fine but some files produce "Input/output errors" when you try to access them (ls, cat, rm, find, etc.). I moved the tree to another location on the same filesystem and tried again, and the same files were corrupted in the new tree (maybe not a perfect correlation, but pretty close). If you unmount the filesystem and do an "e2fsck -f -y /dev/xxx", it clears up the problem (IIRC, it deletes the affected files, but I could be wrong).
I have done a few kernel builds and other large-scale compiles without having this pop up -- it seems to be pretty intermittent and random, most often happens with large trees, but some small trees affected. Not limited to a single filesystem, either. CPU, disk, network loads are all minimal -- this is a single-user X workstation.
jafager
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