On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 01:31:58PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Giacomo Mulas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Francesco Pietra wrote: > > > >> Since I changed from reiserfs 3.6 to ext3 with debian etch amd64, the > >> system > >> no more suffered any crash, after days of running a very heavy computation > >> with mpqc 2.3.1 with thread command for two dual opterons and 8 GB ram. The > >> computation has now ended to full convergence. That was the most stressing > >> action of memory I could conceive. > > > > Would you be able to put together and make available a simple script with > > such a stress test for other people to try? Especially if you know that it > > consistently crashes your previous setup. I, for one, am curious, since I > > have 7 rock stable amd64 machines happily crunching numbers with (other) > > quantum chemistry applications and using reiserfs. None of them is SMP > > though. > > > > Bye > > Giacomo > > We (at my workplace) have lots of them, smp and not, with reiserfs and > they don't usualy crash. They do crash a lot when we get new ones > untill we weed out all the bad ram and such but after that the > majority runs stable. The rest we swap cpu or the mainboard till they > work. > > We still do have problems with reiserfs every now and then > though. Having power getting cut from nodes without proper shutdown > seems to be a problem for reiserfs.
Weird! That's supposed to be the very thing reiserfs *is* good at. > On reboot the syslogd hangs for > ages unless /var is reformated. Recently I convinced my boss to switch > to another filesystem but we still have to test crash (e.g. pull the > power every 5 minutes) the different FSes a lot to see which is most > robust. I'd be interested in the results of your tests. > > Personaly I use ext3 and never had problems on amd64. And I'm using reiser and having problems on my AMD64. I guess that's another thing for me to try, though my problems seem to be X server-related. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
