On Tue, 20 Oct 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi all, and sorry for using this kind of bandwidth :)
>
> In my mail yesterday I indicated that RAID-5 was finally working well
> for me, with 2.0.35 pre15.
>
> Before taking the RAID in production, I wanted to stress-test it. So, I
> ran a tar and two bonnie jobs.
> The system locked up to some extent. I could still ping it, but the fs
> layer seemed to have died.
>
> The syslog said:
> Oct 20 02:02:09 malthe kernel: raid5: lock contention, rw == 0, sh->cmd == 1
> Oct 20 02:02:14 malthe kernel: raid5: lock contention, rw == 1, sh->cmd == 2
there are related bugs fixed in the latest alpha patch. (available for 2.0
too). It would be nice to know wether it fixes your problems.
-- mingo
