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From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 10:49:06 +0200
Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 11:14:15 -0300 (BRT)
> Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I have just started stress testing a 8way OSDL box to see if I can
> > reproduce the problem. I'm using pre6+axboes BH_Sync patch.
> > 
> > I'm running 50 dbench clients on aic7xxx (ext2) and 50 dbench clients on
> > DAC960 (ext3). Lets see what happens.
> > 
> > After lunch I'll keep looking at the oopses. During the morning I only had
> > time to setup the OSDL box and start the tests.
> 
> Hello Marcelo,
> 
> have you seen anything in your tests? My box just froze again after 3 days
> during NFS action. This was with pre6, I am switching over to pre7.

I managed to freeze the pre7 box within these few hours. There was no nfs
involved, only tar-to-tape.
I switched back to 2.4.21 to see if it is still stable.
Is there a possibility that the i/o-scheduler has another flaw somewhere (just
like during mount previously) ...


Regards,
Stephan