Re: Total lockups using ext3
On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 09:24:25AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 05 Feb 2002, Arne Goetje wrote:
> > On Tuesday 05 February 2002 07:53, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 10:20:17AM +0000, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> > > > After weeks of frustration, I've finally settled that the
> > > > frequent lockups I've been getting when on-line with 2.4 series
> > > > kernels is due to enabling ext3. If I turn this off in fstab the
> > > > lockups don't occur. Has anyone else seen this?
> > >
> > > I had 2 hard lock-up with newly ext3 enabled system.
> > >
> > > I observed some irregularity with X start up so I thought it was
> > > new X. Console where I run startx become white. I have 3dfx on
> > > cheep SMP box (Abit BP6). SMP keep popping up interrupt error,
> > > anyway.
> > >
> > > Nice thing is rebooting is much faster with exi3 after hard lock
> > > up like this which requires brutal power-off button action.
> > >
> > > Oh, I use standard kernel-image-2.4.17-686-smp
> >
> > Can it be that it is a kernel version issue? I use 2.2.14 with
> > ext3-patch (self compiled) and don't have any problems at all. In
> > which situations do you get these lockups?
> >
> > Cheers Arne --
>
> I don't think it's related to kernel version, at least in my case.
> It's happened with all kernels from 2.4.10 onwards.
>
> Incidentally, I believe there are known problems with lockups in SMP,
> but I don't have that.
>
> Anthony
>
After 2 hard lock ups (<24hr), I stop running X (Galeon) on that machine
over night. Now It is stable even with ext3 for few days. Now I
suspect X server. :)
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