On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 10:45 -0400, John Stoffel wrote:
> utz> I have to recompile the fedora kernel rpms (fc6, f7) with 8k
> utz> stacks on my i686 server. It's using NFS -> XFS -> DM -> MD
> utz> (raid1) -> IDE disks. With 4k stacks it crash (hang) within
> utz> minutes after using NFS. With 8k stacks it's rock solid. No
> utz> crashes within months.
>
> Does it give any useful information when it does crash?
>
No, sorry. Nearly always it lock up so hard that even sysrq didn't work
anymore. Most times the console was blanked. If not, there was a line
with "do_irq" or something like that (if i remember correctly).
A few times it continuous oopsing (scrolling like mad).
I think it's just a stack overflow. Knowing that XFS + long IO stack
have problems with 4k stacks. And i have zero crashes with the
recompiled 8k stack kernels. (All kernel are the fedora ones).
Btw: In the past the server runs on slightly different hardware and
without raid1 (NFS -> XFS -> DM -> IDE disk). It runs with 4k stacks. I
had a few crashes, but i blame the hardware for it.
I don't want to make tests with the server. It's my main data storage
and i don't want to risk it.
> Can you make
> a simple test case using ram disks instead of IDE disks and then
> building upon that?
Sorry, i don't think i can do this. My other computer, which i can use
for tests, is x86_64 based.
And IFAIK the problem on the XFS side has something to do with looking
for freespace on many AGs. So maybe a bigger and filled filesystem is
needed. And 50GB ram disks are out of question.
utz
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