On 13 Jun 2003 at 9:11am, Eric Sproul wrote > I have recently seen a couple occurrences of a "data timeout" on a > particular DLE that I cannot figure out. The host is running RH7.2, > serving GNU MailMan lists. It has 512MB of RAM and 2 20G IDE disks > running software-RAID1. > > The device giving me trouble is /dev/md6, an ext2 fs which contains > mailing list archives. Its total size is 6.2GB with about 3.8GB used. > This fs doesn't change much, only the occasional twiddle when a mailing > list post comes in and the archive is updated. We don't have all that > many lists, and most of them have little volume. So I don't suspect an > actively changing filesystem to be the culprit.
Is the host fully updated (especially glibc and the kernel)? Dump on 2.4 series kernels has always been a contentious issue. After moving to 2.4 and seeing lots of timeouts, I converted all my dumptypes to using tar. No problems. If you want to keep using dump, update everything with the latest errata, and grab the latest version of dump from <http://dump.sourceforge.net/>. -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
