From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262767AbVAKOU7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:20:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262768AbVAKOU7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:20:59 -0500 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([216.238.38.203]:15365 "EHLO gatekeeper.tmr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262767AbVAKOUx (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:20:53 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Path: not-for-mail From: Bill Davidsen Newsgroups: mail.linux-kernel Subject: Re: Bad disks or bug ? Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 09:23:31 -0500 Organization: TMR Associates, Inc Message-ID: <41E3E163.9030804@tmr.com> References: <41E3D2A7.3000002@sgi.com><41E3D2A7.3000002@sgi.com> <41E3D37A.2030303@abinetworks.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: gatekeeper.tmr.com 1105452643 17602 192.168.12.100 (11 Jan 2005 14:10:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@tmr.com Cc: Prarit Bhargava , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: "Ing. Gianluca Alberici" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <41E3D37A.2030303@abinetworks.biz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ing. Gianluca Alberici wrote: > Prarit, > > I run 2.4.27 on all my machines. > > Never had problems but this (if we want to say its not a disk problem) > > I have seen on mailing lists many people having this very problem, > always on hdb, with a lot of different kernel and machines. > > I have basically two kind of cabinets: > > - The 'Antec style' tower > - Racmount cases > > Everything well cooled...i am sure bout that. > > Always ASUS A7V, Athlon XP 2xxx+, NEVER OVERCLOCKED, of course... > > Disks are mainly Maxtor, or IBM > > Basically i was wondering whether to swap disks on a server just to try.... > > ....These are the things that rave me mad ! You might see if you can swap positions in the case first, then I guess you would have nothing to try but actually flipping master with slave (and contents as well, good fun). Just wondering, where is your swap? Your Journal? Do you have a small fast drive you could use for swap and external journal? I checked all the machines which have a similar configuration, and I don't see any pattern, although all the machines with really high i/o load are using SCSI. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me