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Re: N2100 kernel crash (?)



On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:35:39PM +0200, Peter Bauer wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 27.09.2009, 10:44 +0200 schrieb Pierre Habouzit:
> > Note that I've read about [1] on the archive. My thecus N2100 runs the
> > kernel from tbm's repository, with the DMA patch.
> > 
> > I've experienced, during very heavy I/O load (as in rsync for a mirror
> > plus large copy - ~200Go - from a locally mounted NFS partition to the
> > local raid array) mysterious freezes of the machine. The NIC is still
> up
> > (leds are on), though disks are not spinning and I'm unable to ping
> the
> > machine.
> > 
> > I've no serial console soldered (yet) and there is nothing in the logs
> > that is helpful (they just stop). Though reading about [1] I wondered
> if
> > that was a general known problem with the Thecus.
> > 
> > 
> > [1]
> http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-arm@lists.debian.org/msg09843.html
> > 
> 
> Hi
> 
> I also noticed that the current 2.6.26 stable kernel with dma patch from
> Martin crashes and reported this too Martin. For me the official 2.6.26
> kernel does not show this problem. I triggered the problem with copying
> about 20 *.jpegs with nfs from my laptop to the thecus.

Okay so what you say is that the official kernel doesn't exhibit the
problem and that it's due to the DMA patches then ? Too bad because
without them the machine is really sluggish :/
-- 
·O·  Pierre Habouzit
··O                                                madcoder@debian.org
OOO                                                http://www.madism.org

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