Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262518AbTHUIcd (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 04:32:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262522AbTHUIcd (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 04:32:33 -0400 Received: from 13.2-host.augustakom.net ([80.81.2.13]:27520 "EHLO phoebee") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262518AbTHUIc3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Aug 2003 04:32:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:32:27 +0200 From: Martin Zwickel To: Andrew Morton Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.0-t3: vfs/ext3 do_lookup bug?! Message-Id: <20030821103227.7d8fe531.martin.zwickel@technotrend.de> In-Reply-To: <20030821004018.1fb79bbb.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20030820171431.0211930e.martin.zwickel@technotrend.de> <20030820113625.6a75d699.akpm@osdl.org> <20030821083337.6fc701b9.martin.zwickel@technotrend.de> <20030820234119.33362f7a.akpm@osdl.org> <20030821092534.0eb08a89.martin.zwickel@technotrend.de> <20030821004018.1fb79bbb.akpm@osdl.org> Organization: TechnoTrend AG X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.3claws36 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-Operating-System: Linux Phoebee 2.4.21-rc4 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz X-Face: $rTNP}#i,cVI9h"0NVvD.}[fsnGqI%3=N'~,}hzs bubbled: > Sigh. Well the filesystem obviously shat itself, so the fsck errors aren't > that surprising. > > My guess would be that something oopsed while holding a directory semaphore > and you missed the oops. Maybe you were in X at the time? yes, but I cant find an oops in my /var/log/messages and .?.gz. the last oops is a month ago. well, something really strange happened and if it happens again, i'll try to figure it out what went wrong. > > If it happens again, please remember that dmesg needs the `-s 1000000' > option to prevent it from truncating output. yep, will do that next time. > > > ps.: 2.6.0-t3 scheduler performance is not that good... > > It's pretty bad. I'm running 2.6.0-test3-mm1 here which has Ingo/Con > goodies and it is significantly improved. > > Once that code is working sufficiently well for everyone and there is > consensus that the general direction is correct and the possible > regressions with mixed database workloads are sorted out, we'll fix it up. > So don't panic yet. I tried many patches for test2. and some worked not that bad. ok, i'll give -mm1 a try. and thx for the help. Regards, Martin -- MyExcuse: temporary routing anomaly Martin Zwickel Research & Development TechnoTrend AG --sE96j45C.p=.?B), Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/RIObmjLYGS7fcG0RArOHAJ9jt1FZe/tc9hErAPrx5xbFWlYzCwCfU4p4 JzY0jBdL+jhFTZoWFlLHN6A= =NDsp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sE96j45C.p=.?B),-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/