Re: SATA hangs...

[Hamish <hamish@travellingkiwi.com>]

On Saturday 24 June 2006 23:30, you wrote:
> On Saturday 24 June 2006 09:09, you wrote:
> > On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 09:36:59 +0200
> >
> > Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it> wrote:
> > > > > I'm having problems with a SATA drive on an ASUS A8V deluxe
> > > > > motherboard under kernel 2.6.17... In fact it's happened under
> > > > > every (Vanilla) kernel I've ever run on this server (Back to
> > > > > 2.6.14). (It's just over a year old. It didn't used to experience
> > > > > the same load as it does now, so I'm currently assuming it's load
> > > > > related...
> > >
> > > I think I've hit something similar yesterday, with 2.6.17.1...
> >
> > I was thinking that I've recently enabled CONFIG_PREEMPT (usually I
> > was just using CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY).
> >
> > Maybe is totally unrelated but... for Hamish: what is/was your PREEMPT
> > config?
>
> Hmm...
>
> damned stats # gzip -dc /proc/config.gz |grep -i preempt
> # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set
> # CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY is not set
> CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
> CONFIG_PREEMPT_BKL=y
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT=y
> damned stats #
>
> I also tried 2.6.17-mm but that dies in reiserfs claiming a bug in bitmap.c
>
> I'll try a re-compile of 2.7.17.1 vanilla with no pre-empt & see how it
> goes.
>

Well, I turned off pre-empt, and haven't struck a problem since in almost a 
week.

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