Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:14:56 -0200 (BRST) | From | Marcelo Tosatti <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.24 with the 2.4.23-xfs patches from sgi |
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On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Jeffrey E. Hundstad wrote:
> Hello, > > In the last 48-hours we've had two machines hang with no messages on the > console and none in the logs, pings return, drive lights are all off and > don't ever flash. Both machines we running linux-2.4.24 with the > xfs-2.4.23-all-i386 patch as recommended by the XFS group. These > machines had been running fine on this kernel image since Jan 13, > 2004. One machine was running XFS as a filesystem and the other was > running EXT2. These machines have both been in constant production for > over 4 years and there has not been any hardware changes, including > those to it's environment with is power and temperature controlled. > > Both machines are Pentium-3 class, 256M of memory, both using SCSI disk > with different SCSI controllers. This is the the version string: > Linux version 2.4.24-xfs (j3gum@krypton) (gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 > (Debian prerelease)) #1 SMP Tue Jan 13 22:05:12 CST 2004 > > If you need more specific info. I'll prob. keep these and the other > dozen on the same kernel image up for a few more days.
Hi Jeffrey,
There is a known VFS _SMP_ deadlock in 2.4.24. I'm not sure if that is what you are hitting, but it is likely.
So try 2.4.25-pre7 (which contains an uptodated XFS tree) and check if the problem goes away.
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