Nate wrote: > Yeah, I doubt very much it's a backuppc issue, sorry if I may have > implied that. I'm fairly confident it's a ext3/driver issue. But as > this popped up when we began using backuppc I suspect it may have to > do with the massive quantities of files and had hoped another > backuppc may have encountered and solved it. > > controller is onboard nvidia, using the sata_nv driver > drives are all Seagate ST31500341AS 1.5TB drives >
Hmmm... http://techreport.com/discussions.x/15863 > drives are tethered by LVM to a 4.1TB single ext3 partition > > Seems that centos reported bug also is using LVM, perhaps a tie, but > it's ext3 that's crashing by the crash output. > It's likely the kernel trying to access the ext3 data and not getting a response. What does "fgrep frozen /var/log/messages" show? You might try disabling the write cache on the physical drives (hdparm -W0 /dev/sd{a,b,c), as some have reported that solves the "stuttering" at the cost of performance. Chris ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
