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From: Mike D Tancsa <mdtancsa@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: Load related wd problem
In-Reply-To: <199807061533.LAA27822@dot.crosswinds.net> from Tony Holmes at "Jul 6, 98 11:33:25 am"
To: tony@crosswinds.net (Tony Holmes)
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:36:50 -0400 (EDT)
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> Greetings,
> 
> I posted to -stable and -current since these seem to be the most appropriate
> places for this question - please correct me if this is wrong.

Based on what you are running, only stable... Current is for the 3.x branch.

> 
> When the IDE disks are under heavy load, they will take down the system with
> no warning.  

What sort of drive controllers are in your boxes... Also, can you post to
some web page your kernel config file and the dmesg output from bootup
time.

> I've seen the same effect on a system set up as a Squid proxy with 2 ide
> drives - loggings to one disk and caching on the other, where my peak
> wd interrupt rates reach 150-200/sec - this machine will hang after
> anywhere between 1.5 hours and 2 days of uptime.

Can this be repeated right away ?  What if you reboot a machine, and then
run several copies of bonnie.. Will it freeze the machine ?


	---Mike

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