On 10/27/05, Steve Pugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
--- Ryan Steffes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I thought I had finally gotten this fixed with the
> kernel option nolapic,
> but it happened to me again. I am experiencing hard
> lock ups that seem to be
> related to high data throughput, but aren't
> consistent enough for me to
> track down. When it freezes, only hitting the reset
> or power button fixes
> it.

Hi Ryan,

I'm wondering if your situation might be similar to
mine but you've certainly checked more possible
troublespots than I did, I just got lucky with the
timing of my request ;-)

I was experiencing what I thought were lockups when
deleting recorded programs, either through the
interface or via MythWeb.  Turns out it wasn't a
lockup (although the interface and/or Mythweb became
frozen, and puTTY'ing in did not work).  The freeze
was temporary (lasting a few to several minutes) and
related to deleting *large* files from my ext3
filesystem.  As far as I can tell, it's been remedied
by switching to XFS for my program storage drive (only
five days of testing so far).

Just a thought, not *entirely* your situation but
close enough that I thought I'd post.  If your
curious, you can search for my threads from the past
week and change.

Best,
   Steve




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I think you had a different issue.  I am using reiserfs like the original poster (I like to be able to resize lvms down), and I see a delete pause of 1-2 seconds, no lockups or anything.

However, I can induce a hard lockup on my box very easily.  If I run a very data intensive process I _will_ get a hard lockup.  I have moved commercial detection to my slave backend beacuse every 2-3 months I will get a hard lockup if I have a lot of commercial detection jobs running.  Transcoding also causes issues.  Of course I have an nforce2 chipset and I believe that it is the root of the problem.  The only solace I can give you is that I have managed to configure my box to have really good uptime by keeping the large intensive jobs on the slave.
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