Hello all,
I am having an absolutely vexing problem that maybe somebody might shed
some light on.
I just got 2 new computers, both running F7. They each have one Seagate
750 GB SATA 3 Gb/s, 7200 RPM, 16 MB drive. Each machine has 4 GB of RAM,
Core 2 quad 6700 motherboard from ASUS.
OK. I run the computers pretty hard. But I have two Pentium 4's who work
just as hard, all getting a 20 MB/sec peak (1 MB/sec avg) weather feed
from the National Weather Service, flawlessly for months until I install
new kernels on it and reboot.
OK, within 12 hours after startup of the new machine running identical
software that the other slower machines are running with the exact same
data feed, I get
kernel: journal commit I/O error
I can log in, but can't do commands. A manual power-down (shutdown -r now
won't work) and reboot clears it fine.
First I suspected a hard drive error on both machines. But then
replacement hard drives came in. It seemed to stop the problem for a
few days, so I closed a bugzilla I had. Nope, this weekend, it went back
to crashing every 4-18 hours.
I tried to cut the read-writes in half, to no effect, by reducing the
amount of data/files coming in.
I have:
Replaced the hard drive 3 times with new ones (to no avail)
Reduced the read/writes by around half
Turned off legacy USB support, which also caused my keyboard and mouse to
stop working with errors (that's been cleared and is OK)
Filed a bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=318661
Tonight, I tried using the original kernel that came with F7
(2.6.21-1.3194.fc7) instead of the latest (2.6.22.9-91.fc-7).
As of two hours into this, so far so good, but I'm not confident.
Two other machines, Pentium 4's at 3 GHZ with ASUS motherboards, purr like
a kitten.
Has anyone seen anything like this, or know what could be the problem?
As always, grateful for any help, and thanks for reading this!
Gilbert
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