Re: Linux FS problems 2.2.10

Craig Armour (c.armour@lingua.arts.uq.edu.au)
Wed, 04 Aug 1999 12:46:06 +1000


> Perhaps it's not related to the harddrives (you have eliminated one of the
> possiblities). How long after boot up does this happen? Does it happen
> only with 2.2.10? Is the hardware being worked on (network/harddrive)? To
> diagnose the problem and find a solution the whole situation needs to be
> layed out.

well no, as it happens, I have crashes with every 2.2 kernel so far.
longest uptime has been 27 days. I put it down to dodgy disks in the
quantums but... Most commen cause of the crash is tar (backup script)
and e2fs error

> Hrm... SMP has been slightly changed from 2.2.7 (which I use) to 2.2.10
> which behaves like the 2.3.x series. I notice that in 2.2.7 (with
> wmmon+smp) that any CPU intensive apps don't hop from CPU to CPU as often
> as it does with 2.2.10/2.3.x, perhaps this is Affecting you?

I don't know... but I ran the box in single cpu mode for a while and it
crashed faster (ie lower uptimes)

> you could use the system map with klogd then, when a OOPS occurs, you can
> tell where it occurred and what fuctions were called(?). This is logged to
> syslogd.

yeah it logged the oops but running ksymoops over it brings up
garbage...

> Can you give a detail description of your hardware? ie: model numbers,
> CPUs being used. It may help to locate the problem.

Ok.. detailed?? here we go

Mobo Asus PIIB-DS
dual PII-266 (there arn't any dodgy PII's with bugs floating around
are there??)
apart from the onboard adaptec there is the diamond fireport uses
the SYM53c875-J driver

if you want anything more than that.. I can include a dmesg output??

Cheers
Craig (really need a stable box and can't seem to get it :( )

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