From: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>
To: Ahmed El Zein <a.elzein@gawab.net>
Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com>, "Ramy M. Hassan " <ramy@gawab.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs internal error on a new filesystem
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 04:58:51 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070216175851.GI5724@melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070215161932.3230.qmail@info11.gawab.com>
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 04:19:32PM +0000, Ahmed El Zein wrote:
> David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> wrote on 15 Feb 2007, 11:16 AM:
> >What is your filessytem layout? (xfs_info <mntpt>) How much memory
> >do you have and were you near enomem conditions?
>
> We have 1536 MB of ram. It is possible that at the time of the crash we
> were near enomem conditions, I don;t know for sure but we have seen such
> spikes on our servers.
Ok, so that's a possibility.
> root@info6:~# xfs_info /vol/6/
> meta-data=/dev/sdd8 isize=256 agcount=16, agsize=7001584
> blks
> = sectsz=512 attr=0
> data = bsize=4096 blocks=112025248, imaxpct=25
> = sunit=16 swidth=64 blks, unwritten=0
> naming =version 2 bsize=4096
> log =internal bsize=4096 blocks=32768, version=1
> = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks
> realtime =none extsz=65536 blocks=0, rtextents=0
Nothing unusual here...
> >Yes. Do you have ECC memory on your server? Have you run memtest86?
> >Were there any I/O errors in the log prior to the shutdown message?
> Yes, we have ECC memory.
> We will try to run memtest86 as soon as possible.
> There were no I/O errors in the log prior to the shutdown message.
>
> Btw, this is a vmware image. /vol/6 is an exported physical partition.
I'd suggest trying to reproduce this problem without vmware in the
picture - you need to rule out a vmware based problem first before we
can really make any progress on this....
Cheers,
Dave.
--
Dave Chinner
Principal Engineer
SGI Australian Software Group
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-16 17:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-15 16:19 xfs internal error on a new filesystem Ahmed El Zein
2007-02-16 17:58 ` David Chinner [this message]
2007-02-18 13:56 ` Leon Kolchinsky
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-14 10:24 Ramy M. Hassan
2007-02-14 10:40 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2007-02-14 10:48 ` Patrick Ale
2007-02-15 9:16 ` David Chinner
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