On Saturday 21 April 2007 09:50, John Pierce wrote: > I have opensuse 10.2 installed on an HP Pavilion DV9208nr and have > been using the xfs file system. I have been having random lockups > and I am converting the file systems to ext3 from xfs.
I would not attribute these symptoms to XFS. XFS is a mature, stable file system, at least as much as any other available in SuSE Linux / openSUSE. If your system is unstable, I'd diagnose the problem, probably hardware-related in this case, before a protracted file system conversion that is unlikely to yield any improvement. If you can establish a login via ssh or telnet from another computer (only use telnet if the connection is via network link that's behind a firewall or otherwise isolated from the Internet) in advance of the symptom, then when the hang occurs you may still be able to run some commands such as ps, top or one of the various monitoring commands. The first thing to look for is processes hung in a 'D' wait state (using ps). This can sometimes be the result of software problems (disk or file system drive bugs) but when it occurs frequently is probably the sign of a problem with a disk drive, controller or bus interface component. > ... > > Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated. You have mine. > -- > John Randall Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
