Gregor Best writes: > On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 01:27:27PM -0500, Jonathan Thornburg wrote: >> [...] >> Questions: >> * Are other Thinkpad T60 users seeing similar problems? >> [...] > > I'm using an R61i and I sometimes see that too. On my machine, it > usually happens under relatively high I/O load, such as when using rsync > to copy data from another machine to a USB disk. [...]
My SL510 froze yesterday while syncing two USB disks with "rsync -aH --delete". This particular sync requires lots of memory as there are hundred of thousands of hardlinks. But when I replaced "--delete" with "--delete-before", which is supposed to require even more memory, the sync succeeded. I was able to reproduce this two times with different USB disks (same brand though) before I figured out that the option "--delete-before" helps. On the second and third run I quit everything besides my window manager, an xterm and rsync. Reading from both disks simultaneously with dd doesn't cause any problems.
