Claudio Martins <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> While stress testing 2.6.12-rc2 on an HP DL145 I get processes stuck in D
> state after some time.
> This machine is a dual Opteron 248 with 2GB (ECC) on one node (the other
> node has no RAM modules plugged in, since this board works only with pairs).
>
> I was using stress (http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/) with the
> following command line:
>
> stress -v -c 20 -i 12 -m 10 -d 20
>
> This causes a constant load avg. of around 70, makes the machine go into
> swap a little, and writes up to about 20GB of random data to disk while
> eating up all CPU. After about half and hour random processes like top, df,
> etc get stuck in D state. Half of the 60 or so stress processes are also in D
> state. The machine keeps being responsive for maybe some 15 minutes but then
> the shells just hang and sshd stops responding to connections, though the
> machine replies to pings (I don't have console acess till tomorrow).
>
> The system is using ext3 with md software Raid1.
>
> I'm interested in knowing if anyone out there with dual Opterons can
> reproduce this or not. I also have access to an HP DL360 Dual Xeon, so I will
> try to find out if this is AMD64 specific as soon as possible. Please let me
> know if you want me to run some other tests or give some more info to help
> solve this one.
Can you capture the output from alt-sysrq-T?
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