Re: 2.0.36 Lockups with and without OOPS

Ian D Romanick (idr@cs.pdx.edu)
Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:36:31 -0800 (PST)


> I have a fairly new (one month old) server at a clients that locks up
> after being up anywhere for 15 minutes to 3 days. It is running an
> updated (non 2.2) Redhat 5.1 distribution. Specifics are as follows:
>
> Hardware:
> Intel N400BX Motherboard (Built in SCSI (UW/U) & ethernet)
> Intel Astor Chasis with RAID Cage
>
> Software:
> Linux Kernel v2.0.36 (patched with AMI's drivers)

I assume that the onboard SCSI is Adaptec? If so, I strongly suggest that
you roll back (at least the SCSI driver) to 2.0.32. Numerous people
(including myself) have reported system locks with the 2.0.36 and higher
AIC7xxx driver.

The hangs seem to happen when you do disk-to-disk operations. They also
tend to happen more often on slower machines. On my dual P5-133, everytime
I copy a file that is larger the ~1MB from one drive to another the system
hangs. People with faster CPUs usually say that the hangs are more
intermittent.

-- 
"That is not dead                                 http://www.cs.pdx.edu/~idr/
 Which can eternal lie
 Yet with strange aeons
 Even death may die."   -- H. P. Lovecraft

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