Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:35:26 +0200
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw@ithnet.com>
To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, andrea@suse.de, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4.22-pre lockups (now decoded oops for pre10)
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On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:33:28 -0300 (BRT)
Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> wrote:

> > > > Ah yes, and from the long series of tests I can tell that the box won't
> > > > crash with UP kernel. I can re-check that with rc1 if this is useful.
> > > 
> > > Okey. Thats useful information.

During this weekend I did several tests around SMP and UP, and I can definitely
confirm the box does not crash under rc2-UP kernel, but collapses within hours
under rc2-SMP.

> > > How hard would it be for you to try ext3 
> > > as the filesystem (as Andrew suggested) ? 

I spent half the weekend to turn the setup from reiserfs over to ext3
completely preserving the data. The box runs now with rc2-SMP-ext3 (no reiserfs
present any longer). I will send notice if/when it crashes.

>From looking at the tests so far I would say the setup is remarkably slower in
terms of writing to ext3 via nfs and sync option set. I think especially the
"sync" is very visible - unlike reiserfs.

Regards,
Stephan
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