Re: 2.6.0-t3: vfs/ext3 do_lookup bug?!

[Martin Zwickel]

On Thu, 21 Aug 2003 00:40:18 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> bubbled:

> Sigh.  Well the filesystem obviously shat itself, so the fsck errors aren't
> that surprising.
> 
> My guess would be that something oopsed while holding a directory semaphore
> and you missed the oops.  Maybe you were in X at the time?

yes, but I cant find an oops in my /var/log/messages and .?.gz. the last oops
is a month ago.
well, something really strange happened and if it happens again, i'll try to
figure it out what went wrong.

> 
> If it happens again, please remember that dmesg needs the `-s 1000000'
> option to prevent it from truncating output.

yep, will do that next time.

> 
> > ps.: 2.6.0-t3 scheduler performance is not that good...
> 
> It's pretty bad.  I'm running 2.6.0-test3-mm1 here which has Ingo/Con
> goodies and it is significantly improved.
> 
> Once that code is working sufficiently well for everyone and there is
> consensus that the general direction is correct and the possible
> regressions with mixed database workloads are sorted out, we'll fix it up. 
> So don't panic yet.

I tried many patches for test2. and some worked not that bad.
ok, i'll give -mm1 a try.

and thx for the help.

Regards,
Martin

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Martin Zwickel <martin.zwickel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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