Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751089AbXAVPew (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:34:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751045AbXAVPew (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:34:52 -0500 Received: from chert.unet.maine.edu ([130.111.32.28]:55456 "EHLO chert.unet.maine.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751089AbXAVPev (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:34:51 -0500 X-Greylist: delayed 2062 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 10:34:51 EST Message-ID: <45B4D0ED.7030500@maine.edu> Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:57:49 -0500 From: Steve Cousins User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Justin Piszcz CC: kyle , linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: change strip_cache_size freeze the whole raid References: <001801c73e14$c3177170$28df0f3d@kylecea1512a3f> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-DCC-UniversityOfMaineSystem-Metrics: chert.unet.maine.edu 1003; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-From: steve.cousins@maine.edu Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1078 Lines: 30 Justin Piszcz wrote: > Yes, I noticed this bug too, if you change it too many times or change it > at the 'wrong' time, it hangs up when you echo numbr > > /proc/stripe_cache_size. > > Basically don't run it more than once and don't run it at the 'wrong' time > and it works. Not sure where the bug lies, but yeah I've seen that on 3 > different machines! Can you tell us when the "right" time is or maybe what the "wrong" time is? Also, is this kernel specific? Does it (increasing stripe_cache_size) work with RAID6 too? Thanks, Steve -- ______________________________________________________________________ Steve Cousins, Ocean Modeling Group Email: cousins@umit.maine.edu Marine Sciences, 452 Aubert Hall http://rocky.umeoce.maine.edu Univ. of Maine, Orono, ME 04469 Phone: (207) 581-4302 - 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/