Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262862AbUDQMQI (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:16:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262634AbUDQMQI (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:16:08 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.de ([213.165.64.20]:9614 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S262862AbUDQMQD (ORCPT ); Sat, 17 Apr 2004 08:16:03 -0400 X-Authenticated: #1226656 Date: Sat, 17 Apr 2004 14:15:37 +0200 From: Marc Giger To: Willy Tarreau Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux on UltraSparcII E450 Message-Id: <20040417141537.2986af5a@vaio.gigerstyle.ch> In-Reply-To: <20040417100630.GG596@alpha.home.local> References: <20040417105303.7936e413@vaio.gigerstyle.ch> <20040417100630.GG596@alpha.home.local> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.9claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1852 Lines: 61 On Sat, 17 Apr 2004 12:06:30 +0200 Willy Tarreau wrote: > Hmmm, I believe you forgot to tell which kernel version you used, and > how you configured it :-) > > Willy Oh f**k:-) Sorry for that. It is 2.4.26. Sorry, I can't attach the .config because I'm not near the machine... RAID1 + RAID5 code in kernel. No preempt but SMP. ext3 fs on all disks. Most other code as modules configured. Hopefully nothing forgotten this time. Thank you! Regards Marc > > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 10:53:03AM +0200, Marc Giger wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Last week I had the honor to install Linux on a E450 with 2 cpu's. > > All went fine at first. Long compiling sessions were no problem for > > the machine. Later we installed 16 additional SCSI disks and we > > built 4 x Soft-RAID5 groups with 4 disks each. > > After some time during the sync processes the machine stops > > responding. Simply dead. The same thing happens after every boot > > when the sync process is in action. > > > > My question now is: Is it a hardware or a kernel problem? I now it > > isn't a simple question with the given infos. > > Is it possible that the 4 parallel sync processes are to much for > > the SCSI (standard LSI) controllers? > > I assume that the kernel RAID5 code is stable on sparc?! > > > > Thank you > > > > Regards > > > > Marc > > - > > 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/ > - 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/