Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > From: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:42PM -0500 > > > > > > My swap is on, 2GB ram and 2GB of swap on this machine. I can't go back > > to 2.6.17.13 as it does

2.6.19.2 -> 2.6.20-rc5 libata regression

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
2.6.19.2: # hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: WDC WD740GD-00FLC0: 27C 2.6.20-rc5: # hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA WDC WD740GD-00FL: S.M.A.R.T. not available - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

2.6.19.2 - 2.6.20-rc5 libata regression

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
2.6.19.2: # hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: WDC WD740GD-00FLC0: 27C 2.6.20-rc5: # hddtemp /dev/sda /dev/sda: ATA WDC WD740GD-00FL: S.M.A.R.T. not available - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:42PM -0500 My swap is on, 2GB ram and 2GB of swap on this machine. I can't go back to 2.6.17.13 as it does not recognize the NICs in my machine correctly

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 04:03:42PM -0500 My swap is on, 2GB ram and 2GB of swap on this machine. I can't go back to 2.6.17.13 as it does not recognize the NICs in my machine correctly

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:48:07AM -0500 What about all of the changes with NAT? I see that it operates on level-3/network wise, I enabled that and backward compatiblity support as well

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible (multi-threaded USB no go)

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: Good luck, Jurriaan -- What does ELF stand for (in respect to Linux?) ELF is the first rock group that Ronnie James Dio performed with back in the early 1970's. In constrast, a.out is a misspelling of the French word

2.6.20-rc5: cp 18gb 18gb.2 = OOM killer, reproducible just like 2.16.19.2

2007-01-21 Thread Justin Piszcz
Why does copying an 18GB on a 74GB raptor raid1 cause the kernel to invoke the OOM killer and kill all of my processes? Doing this on a single disk 2.6.19.2 is OK, no issues. However, this happens every time! Anything to try? Any other output needed? Can someone shed some light on this

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Avuton Olrich wrote: > > > On 1/20/07, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? > > > > > > Anyway, when I

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Avuton Olrich wrote: > On 1/20/07, Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? > > > > Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw raid1 > > partition, the OOM

2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw raid1 partition, the OOM killer goes into effect and kills almost all my processes. Completely 100% reproducible. Does 2.6.19.2 have some of memory allocation bug as

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is > needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! > > Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5 volume. Copying files over Samba to > the RAID5 runnin

Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba -> RAID5)

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5 volume. Copying files over Samba to the RAID5 running XFS. Any idea what happened here? [473795.214705] BUG: unable to

Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba - RAID5)

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5 volume. Copying files over Samba to the RAID5 running XFS. Any idea what happened here? [473795.214705] BUG: unable to

Re: Kernel 2.6.19.2 New RAID 5 Bug (oops when writing Samba - RAID5)

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: My .config is attached, please let me know if any other information is needed and please CC (lkml) as I am not on the list, thanks! Running Kernel 2.6.19.2 on a MD RAID5 volume. Copying files over Samba to the RAID5 running XFS. Any idea

2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw raid1 partition, the OOM killer goes into effect and kills almost all my processes. Completely 100% reproducible. Does 2.6.19.2 have some of memory allocation bug as

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Avuton Olrich wrote: On 1/20/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw raid1 partition, the OOM killer goes into effect and kills almost all

Re: 2.6.19.2, cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 = OOM killer, 100% reproducible

2007-01-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007, Avuton Olrich wrote: On 1/20/07, Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps its time to back to a stable (2.6.17.13 kernel)? Anyway, when I run a cp 18gb_file 18gb_file.2 on a dual raptor sw raid1 partition

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > > Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but > > > > stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizati

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-13 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizations that made everything go faster by about ~1.5x

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but > > stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizations that made everything > > go faster by about ~1.5x. I have individual bonnie++ be

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
ev/md3 of=/dev/null bs=1M count=10240 10240+0 records in 10240+0 records out 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 398.069 seconds, 27.0 MB/s Awful performance with your numbers/drop_caches settings.. ! What were your tests designed to show? Justin. On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > RAID 5 TWEAKED: 1:06.41 elapsed @ 60% CPU > > > > This should be 1:14 not 1:06(was with a similarly sized file but not the > > same) the 1:14 is the same file as used with the other benchmarks. and t

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
chunk size) On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > > > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > Using 4 raptor 150s: > > > > > > Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. > >

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > Using 4 raptor 150s: > > > > Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. > > With the tweaks, 195MB/s write and 211MB/s read. > > > > Using kernel 2.6.19.1. > >

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Using 4 raptor 150s: Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. With the tweaks, 195MB/s write and 211MB/s read. Using kernel 2.6.19.1. Without the tweaks and with the tweaks: # Stripe tests

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
chunk size) On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Michael Tokarev wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Using 4 raptor 150s: Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. With the tweaks, 195MB/s write and 211MB/s read. Using kernel 2.6.19.1

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: RAID 5 TWEAKED: 1:06.41 elapsed @ 60% CPU This should be 1:14 not 1:06(was with a similarly sized file but not the same) the 1:14 is the same file as used with the other benchmarks. and to get that I used 256mb read-ahead

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
out 10737418240 bytes (11 GB) copied, 398.069 seconds, 27.0 MB/s Awful performance with your numbers/drop_caches settings.. ! What were your tests designed to show? Justin. On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: RAID 5

Re: Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Al Boldi wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Btw, max sectors did improve my performance a little bit but stripe_cache+read_ahead were the main optimizations that made everything go faster by about ~1.5x. I have individual bonnie++ benchmarks of [only] the max_sector_kb

Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read & 195MB/s write)

2007-01-11 Thread Justin Piszcz
Using 4 raptor 150s: Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. With the tweaks, 195MB/s write and 211MB/s read. Using kernel 2.6.19.1. Without the tweaks and with the tweaks: # Stripe tests: echo 8192 > /sys/block/md3/md/stripe_cache_size # DD TESTS [WRITE] DEFAULT: (512K) $

Linux Software RAID 5 Performance Optimizations: 2.6.19.1: (211MB/s read 195MB/s write)

2007-01-11 Thread Justin Piszcz
Using 4 raptor 150s: Without the tweaks, I get 111MB/s write and 87MB/s read. With the tweaks, 195MB/s write and 211MB/s read. Using kernel 2.6.19.1. Without the tweaks and with the tweaks: # Stripe tests: echo 8192 /sys/block/md3/md/stripe_cache_size # DD TESTS [WRITE] DEFAULT: (512K) $ dd

Re: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

2006-12-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
I had the same problem you did when I put 3 identical controllers together. To get around that problem I used 2 TX133s and 1 TX100x2. I believe this is the root cause of your problems. Justin. On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Erik Ohrnberger wrote: > First off, Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings and

Re: Kernel 2.6.17.13: eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.

2006-12-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Robert Hancock wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > > I am using a dual port Intel NIC on an A-Bit IC7-G; any reason why I get > > these? > > > > [4298634.444000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. > > [4299146.645000] eth2

Re: Kernel 2.6.17.13: eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.

2006-12-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Mon, 25 Dec 2006, Robert Hancock wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: I am using a dual port Intel NIC on an A-Bit IC7-G; any reason why I get these? [4298634.444000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. [4299146.645000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. ... I am using

Re: System / libata IDE controller woes (long)

2006-12-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
I had the same problem you did when I put 3 identical controllers together. To get around that problem I used 2 TX133s and 1 TX100x2. I believe this is the root cause of your problems. Justin. On Tue, 26 Dec 2006, Erik Ohrnberger wrote: First off, Merry Christmas, Seasons Greetings and

Kernel 2.6.17.13: eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.

2006-12-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
I am using a dual port Intel NIC on an A-Bit IC7-G; any reason why I get these? [4298634.444000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. [4299146.645000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. [4299146.645000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. [4299147.437000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold

Kernel 2.6.17.13: eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted.

2006-12-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
I am using a dual port Intel NIC on an A-Bit IC7-G; any reason why I get these? [4298634.444000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. [4299146.645000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. [4299146.645000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold adjusted. [4299147.437000] eth2: TX underrun, threshold

Re: NFS Filesystem Size Limit?

2006-12-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
Thanks for the info! On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote: > On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:21 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: > > I have a question I could not quickly find on Google/mailing lists-- > > > > Say I have some sort of global filesystem or NFS which is 200TB. >

NFS Filesystem Size Limit?

2006-12-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a question I could not quickly find on Google/mailing lists-- Say I have some sort of global filesystem or NFS which is 200TB. Is there a limit either: A) In the Linux kernel or B) In the NFS spec That would limit the client as to what it could see via NFS or global filesystem? Or

NFS Filesystem Size Limit?

2006-12-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a question I could not quickly find on Google/mailing lists-- Say I have some sort of global filesystem or NFS which is 200TB. Is there a limit either: A) In the Linux kernel or B) In the NFS spec That would limit the client as to what it could see via NFS or global filesystem? Or

Re: NFS Filesystem Size Limit?

2006-12-18 Thread Justin Piszcz
Thanks for the info! On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Trond Myklebust wrote: On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 14:21 -0500, Justin Piszcz wrote: I have a question I could not quickly find on Google/mailing lists-- Say I have some sort of global filesystem or NFS which is 200TB. Is there a limit either

Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug?

2006-12-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
I'm not sure what is causing this problem but I was curious is this on a 32bit or 64bit platform? Justin. On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Haar János wrote: > Hello, list, > > I am the "big red button men" with the one big 14TB xfs, if somebody can > remember me. :-) > > Now i found something in the

Re: xfslogd-spinlock bug?

2006-12-12 Thread Justin Piszcz
I'm not sure what is causing this problem but I was curious is this on a 32bit or 64bit platform? Justin. On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Haar János wrote: Hello, list, I am the big red button men with the one big 14TB xfs, if somebody can remember me. :-) Now i found something in the 2.6.16.18,

Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 (WORKS) (2.6.13, DRQ/System CRASH)

2005-09-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Also, Part of the problem may be that I have two ATA/133 Promise cards in one box and only one ATA/133 in the other box. Kernel 2.6.13 has fixed the problem with one ATA/133 card in the box. Kernel 2.6.13 has not fixed the problem with two ATA/133 cards in the box. FYI Justin. On Mon, 5

Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?

2005-09-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a box where I keep getting this in dmesg: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ

Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?

2005-09-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a box where I keep getting this in dmesg: ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt :01:00.0[A] - Link [LNKD] - GSI 5 (level, low) - IRQ 5 ACPI:

Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 (WORKS) (2.6.13, DRQ/System CRASH)

2005-09-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Also, Part of the problem may be that I have two ATA/133 Promise cards in one box and only one ATA/133 in the other box. Kernel 2.6.13 has fixed the problem with one ATA/133 card in the box. Kernel 2.6.13 has not fixed the problem with two ATA/133 cards in the box. FYI Justin. On Mon, 5

2.6.13+netconsole captures crash

2005-09-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On 2.6.13, I have a simple script that tars the data from the root filesystem to a 400GB disk, when this started, I got the following errors and then the machine locked up: Again, 400GB/Seagate+ATA/133, someone should add to the CONFIG_OPTION that 400GB drives are NOT supported w/ the Promise

2.6.13+netconsole captures crash

2005-09-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On 2.6.13, I have a simple script that tars the data from the root filesystem to a 400GB disk, when this started, I got the following errors and then the machine locked up: Again, 400GB/Seagate+ATA/133, someone should add to the CONFIG_OPTION that 400GB drives are NOT supported w/ the Promise

Kernel 2.6.13 + IDE + MULTWRITE_EXT / DRQ Errors

2005-09-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
I still get this error when the drive is on a Promise ATA/133 card. I have the same setup in two separate machines, the results are the same with kernel 2.6.13, ideas? Should I just get more ATA/100 cards and stop trying to figure out what the bug is? Keep in mind the Promise ATA/100 cards

Kernel 2.6.13 + IDE + MULTWRITE_EXT / DRQ Errors

2005-09-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
I still get this error when the drive is on a Promise ATA/133 card. I have the same setup in two separate machines, the results are the same with kernel 2.6.13, ideas? Should I just get more ATA/100 cards and stop trying to figure out what the bug is? Keep in mind the Promise ATA/100 cards

Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 (WORKS) (2.6.13, DRQ/System CRASH)

2005-08-31 Thread Justin Piszcz
LL support qqqk x x[ ] IDE Taskfile Access Anyone have any suggestions how I can solve this problem? On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Justin Piszcz wrote: All, I am trying to get everyone together on this to hopefully solve a serious bug that I have seen on multiple machines with: a)

Linux Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 (WORKS) (2.6.13, DRQ/System CRASH)

2005-08-31 Thread Justin Piszcz
All, I am trying to get everyone together on this to hopefully solve a serious bug that I have seen on multiple machines with: a) A Promise ATA/133 controller (ATA/100 works OK) b) Kernel 2.6.12 or 2.6.13 (2.6.13-rc7 appears to be OK) The drive is a Seagate 7200.8 400GB 7200RPM 8MB cache

Linux Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 (WORKS) (2.6.13, DRQ/System CRASH)

2005-08-31 Thread Justin Piszcz
All, I am trying to get everyone together on this to hopefully solve a serious bug that I have seen on multiple machines with: a) A Promise ATA/133 controller (ATA/100 works OK) b) Kernel 2.6.12 or 2.6.13 (2.6.13-rc7 appears to be OK) The drive is a Seagate 7200.8 400GB 7200RPM 8MB cache

Re: Linux Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 (WORKS) (2.6.13, DRQ/System CRASH)

2005-08-31 Thread Justin Piszcz
qqqk x x[ ] IDE Taskfile Access Anyone have any suggestions how I can solve this problem? On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Justin Piszcz wrote: All, I am trying to get everyone together on this to hopefully solve a serious bug that I have seen on multiple machines with: a) A Promise

Re: Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

2005-08-28 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yes, I have two separate machines with the same controller and HDD. As soon as I found out it fixed the bug on one of them, I changed it on the other, neither machine has crashed since. On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Friday 26 August 2005 05:36 pm, Justin Piszcz wrote: 2

Re: Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

2005-08-28 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yes, I have two separate machines with the same controller and HDD. As soon as I found out it fixed the bug on one of them, I changed it on the other, neither machine has crashed since. On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Friday 26 August 2005 05:36 pm, Justin Piszcz wrote: 2

Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 Latency Question

2005-08-27 Thread Justin Piszcz
These options are self-explanatory: x x ( ) No Forced Preemption (Server) x xx x ( ) Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop) x xx x (X) Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) x x It says 100 HZ or 250 HZ is

Kernel 2.6.13-rc7 Latency Question

2005-08-27 Thread Justin Piszcz
These options are self-explanatory: x x ( ) No Forced Preemption (Server) x xx x ( ) Voluntary Kernel Preemption (Desktop) x xx x (X) Preemptible Kernel (Low-Latency Desktop) x x It says 100 HZ or 250 HZ is

Re: Promise ATA/133 Errors With 2.6.10+

2005-08-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
It appears that 2.6.13-rc7 has fixed the bug. I would like to know *What* changed, but I'll probably never find out :( On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Justin Piszcz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have two different machines with the 7200.8 Seagate 8MB 400GB drives. Both have A

Re: Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

2005-08-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have three different Maxtor (promise) ATA/133 controllers, it happens with all three. On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Friday 26 August 2005 05:36 pm, Justin Piszcz wrote: 2- ATA/133 Maxtor (ATA/Promise Controller) Make sure its actually the kernel

Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

2005-08-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
Kernel 2.6.12.5: 1- 400GB Seagate 8MB cache, 7200RPM, ATA/100 drive. 2- ATA/133 Maxtor (ATA/Promise Controller) 1) Attached 400GB to Seagate 400GB drive. 2) (Not mounted yet) 3) See below hde: 781422768 sectors (400088 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=48641/255/63, UDMA(100) 4) Partition with fdisk

Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

2005-08-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
Kernel 2.6.12.5: 1- 400GB Seagate 8MB cache, 7200RPM, ATA/100 drive. 2- ATA/133 Maxtor (ATA/Promise Controller) 1) Attached 400GB to Seagate 400GB drive. 2) (Not mounted yet) 3) See below hde: 781422768 sectors (400088 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=48641/255/63, UDMA(100) 4) Partition with fdisk

Re: Kernel/Box Freezes Under Kernel 2.6.12.5

2005-08-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have three different Maxtor (promise) ATA/133 controllers, it happens with all three. On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Patrick McFarland wrote: On Friday 26 August 2005 05:36 pm, Justin Piszcz wrote: 2- ATA/133 Maxtor (ATA/Promise Controller) Make sure its actually the kernel

Re: Promise ATA/133 Errors With 2.6.10+

2005-08-26 Thread Justin Piszcz
It appears that 2.6.13-rc7 has fixed the bug. I would like to know *What* changed, but I'll probably never find out :( On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Andrew Morton wrote: Justin Piszcz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have two different machines with the 7200.8 Seagate 8MB 400GB drives. Both have ATA/133

Question regarding HPET the 2.6 series kernel.

2005-08-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
[*] HPET Timer Support [*] Provide RTC interrupt [*] HPET - High Precision Event Timer [*] Allow mmap of HPET http://tlug.up.ac.za/guides/lkcg/arch_i386.html HPET Timer Support HPET_TIMER This enables the use of the HPET for the kernel's internal timer. HPET is the next generation

Question regarding HPET the 2.6 series kernel.

2005-08-14 Thread Justin Piszcz
[*] HPET Timer Support [*] Provide RTC interrupt [*] HPET - High Precision Event Timer [*] Allow mmap of HPET http://tlug.up.ac.za/guides/lkcg/arch_i386.html HPET Timer Support HPET_TIMER This enables the use of the HPET for the kernel's internal timer. HPET is the next generation

Kernel 2.6.xx - NFSv3 vs. Samba Data Transfer Semantics

2005-08-06 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have three machines with the same motherboard and gigabit ethernet, ABIT IC7-G. Two are Linux (Debian) One is Windows 2000. When I copy 100 gigabytes from a Windows 2000 PC to either one of my Linux machines, I get a *SUSTAINED* transfer rate of 40-50MB/s over gigabit. Sustained meaning,

Kernel 2.6.xx - NFSv3 vs. Samba Data Transfer Semantics

2005-08-06 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have three machines with the same motherboard and gigabit ethernet, ABIT IC7-G. Two are Linux (Debian) One is Windows 2000. When I copy 100 gigabytes from a Windows 2000 PC to either one of my Linux machines, I get a *SUSTAINED* transfer rate of 40-50MB/s over gigabit. Sustained meaning,

XFS Oops Under 2.6.12.2

2005-07-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
After a couple hours of use, I get this error on a linear RAID under 2.6.12.2 using loop-AES w/AES-256 encrypted filesystem. Anyone know what is wrong? Filesystem "loop1": XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(2) at line 2271 of file fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c. Caller 0xc025e807 []

XFS Oops Under 2.6.12.2

2005-07-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
After a couple hours of use, I get this error on a linear RAID under 2.6.12.2 using loop-AES w/AES-256 encrypted filesystem. Anyone know what is wrong? Filesystem loop1: XFS internal error xfs_da_do_buf(2) at line 2271 of file fs/xfs/xfs_da_btree.c. Caller 0xc025e807 [c025e3f0]

Kernel 2.6: P4 SMT Question.

2005-07-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
General Question: Would a desktop or server benefit more from SMT? For a Pentium 4 w/HT, we use SMP. What are the advantages/disadvantages of using SMT in the kernel? Thanks, Justin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Kernel 2.6: P4 SMT Question.

2005-07-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
General Question: Would a desktop or server benefit more from SMT? For a Pentium 4 w/HT, we use SMP. What are the advantages/disadvantages of using SMT in the kernel? Thanks, Justin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Intel Gigabit NIC (2.6.5 -> 2.6.10) Bug(?) Found

2005-02-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
What is this e-mail about? Something in the kernel changed regarding the Intel e1000 driver from 2.6.5 to 2.6.10. The change resulted in thousands of errors when the NIC is receiving data. For the past two weeks I have thought about this and tried everything I could think of, it had really been

Intel Gigabit NIC (2.6.5 - 2.6.10) Bug(?) Found

2005-02-20 Thread Justin Piszcz
What is this e-mail about? Something in the kernel changed regarding the Intel e1000 driver from 2.6.5 to 2.6.10. The change resulted in thousands of errors when the NIC is receiving data. For the past two weeks I have thought about this and tried everything I could think of, it had really been

Re: Question regarding e1000 driver and dropped packets (2.6.5 / 2.6.10)?

2005-02-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
[BoxB]RX packets:446380046 errors:1276833 dropped:1276833 overruns:1276833 frame:0 TX packets:572550636 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Justin Piszcz wrote: I have two identical machines [mobo/hardware wise]: Each machine is a Dell GX1p (500MHZ). I have two

Re: Question regarding e1000 driver and dropped packets (2.6.5 / 2.6.10)?

2005-02-09 Thread Justin Piszcz
:446380046 errors:1276833 dropped:1276833 overruns:1276833 frame:0 TX packets:572550636 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 Justin Piszcz wrote: I have two identical machines [mobo/hardware wise]: Each machine is a Dell GX1p (500MHZ). I have two Intel Gigabit NICs, one in each box

Question regarding e1000 driver and dropped packets (2.6.5 / 2.6.10)?

2005-02-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have two identical machines [mobo/hardware wise]: Each machine is a Dell GX1p (500MHZ). I have two Intel Gigabit NICs, one in each box, hooked up to a GigE switch. Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit

Question regarding e1000 driver and dropped packets (2.6.5 / 2.6.10)?

2005-02-08 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have two identical machines [mobo/hardware wise]: Each machine is a Dell GX1p (500MHZ). I have two Intel Gigabit NICs, one in each box, hooked up to a GigE switch. Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82541GI/PI Gigabit

Re: Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yeah, I can try 2.4.29 later tonight; also, the DVD is not scratched, just formatted with Joilet/ISO instead of UDF (which is what should be used on DVDs). However, dd if=/dev/hdh of=file.img Even with bs=1 for 1 byte at a time, there seems to be no way to get the data off,

Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a DVD where I have three files on it, (1.7gb,1.7gb,900mb). On W2K, when I try to copy the second file, I get a BadCRC error message. Under Linux, I copy up to about 860MB (watched via pipebench) and then it freezes the machine, I cannot ping or get to it or do anything on the console;

Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
I have a DVD where I have three files on it, (1.7gb,1.7gb,900mb). On W2K, when I try to copy the second file, I get a BadCRC error message. Under Linux, I copy up to about 860MB (watched via pipebench) and then it freezes the machine, I cannot ping or get to it or do anything on the console;

Re: Re: Reading Bad DVD Under 2.6.10 freezes the box.

2005-02-07 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yeah, I can try 2.4.29 later tonight; also, the DVD is not scratched, just formatted with Joilet/ISO instead of UDF (which is what should be used on DVDs). However, dd if=/dev/hdh of=file.img Even with bs=1 for 1 byte at a time, there seems to be no way to get the data off,

Re: Re: Simple question regarding loop devices.

2005-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Ahh, very nice, thanks! On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Why are there only 7-8 loop devices available? What options do I have if I want to mount, say, 100 isos? Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt say: max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can

Simple question regarding loop devices.

2005-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Why are there only 7-8 loop devices available? What options do I have if I want to mount, say, 100 isos? Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Simple question regarding loop devices.

2005-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Why are there only 7-8 loop devices available? What options do I have if I want to mount, say, 100 isos? Thanks. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html

Re: Re: Simple question regarding loop devices.

2005-02-05 Thread Justin Piszcz
Ahh, very nice, thanks! On Sat, 5 Feb 2005, Randy.Dunlap wrote: Justin Piszcz wrote: Why are there only 7-8 loop devices available? What options do I have if I want to mount, say, 100 isos? Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt say: max_loop= [LOOP] Maximum number of loopback devices that can

Re: Re: Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yes, only with NFS. On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Norbert van Nobelen wrote: Only with NFS? I have a raid array of the same discs and the system just sometimes seems to hang completely (for a second or less) and then to go on again at a normal speed (110MB/s). I am running a SuSE 9.1 stock kernel

Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
When writing to or from the drive via NFS, after 1GB or 2GB, it "feels" like the system slows to a crawl, the mouse gets very slow, almost like one is burning a CD at 52X under PIO mode. I originally had this disk in my main system with an Intel ICH5 chipset (ABIT IC7-G mobo) and a Pentium 4

Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
When writing to or from the drive via NFS, after 1GB or 2GB, it feels like the system slows to a crawl, the mouse gets very slow, almost like one is burning a CD at 52X under PIO mode. I originally had this disk in my main system with an Intel ICH5 chipset (ABIT IC7-G mobo) and a Pentium 4

Re: Re: Mysterious Lag With SATA Maxtor 250GB 7200RPM 16MB Cache Under Linux using NFSv3 UDP

2005-01-17 Thread Justin Piszcz
Yes, only with NFS. On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Norbert van Nobelen wrote: Only with NFS? I have a raid array of the same discs and the system just sometimes seems to hang completely (for a second or less) and then to go on again at a normal speed (110MB/s). I am running a SuSE 9.1 stock kernel

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