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Re: Lookup during intensive IO



On Monday 17 September 2001 11:42 am, Jose Manuel dos Santos Calhariz wrote:
> I am lost, I don't know what to do find the cause of the problem.
> When I put the machine under IO stress the it lookup.  It hapens
> during backup of the machine by the network to an amanda server.
> Doing tar of the filesystems can lookup the machine.
>
> What I have done to try to isolate the problem:
> - I have run memtest86 during more than one day without errors, to
> catch memory errors.
> - I have run burnK7 see if it was a heat problem.  The CPU heated
> until 82 degrees and didn't crash.
> - With the CPU at 82 degrees I could compile the Linux kernel.  And
> off course the temperature have gone down.
> - I have tried many kernels: 2.2.19, 2.4.7-686, 2.4.9-k6,
> 2.4.9-386. And was the same.
>
> The hardware of the machine is:
> - AMD Atlhon 900 MHz
> - 256MB SRAM
> - Motherboard is a ASUS A7V with VIA KT133
> - A second IDE controler Promise PDC20265
> - hda: Maxtor 91152D8, ATA DISK drive 11GB
> - hdb: Maxtor 90648D3, ATA DISK drive  6GB UltraDMA33
> - hdc: Maxtor 98196H8, ATA DISK drive 80GB UltraDMA33
> - Adaptec 2940U
> - scd0:  Vendor: PLEXTOR   Model: CD-R   PX-R412C   Rev: 1.07
> - scd1:  Vendor: PLEXTOR   Model: CD-ROM PX-20TS    Rev: 1.01
>
> What can I do more to find the cause of the lookups.

Start swapping hardware? :)

Normally you'd expect it to be RAM, but you already checked that.

>     Jose Calhariz



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