I've run into similar issues with the system seeming to stall, but mine were related more to bdflush and kreiserfsd competing for resources. Some system tuning helped that out quite a bit.
These Ethernet messages aren't normal... what card/driver are you using? Are you setting any special options? - Herman Dave Mason wrote: > Further to my previous comments, I made a big ext2 partition so I > could copy over the whole directory. It worked fine. I have now run > it several times copying to reiserfs over nfs, with the following > result: > > [root@fs /home]# du -sk * /usr/local/sarg/ > 502484 Export > 502890 Export2 > 502291 Export3 > 502878 Export4 > 500721 Export5 > 511304 /usr/local/sarg > > The last one is the complete copy on the ext2 partition. The first 5 > are various attempts to copy it to the reiserfs partition. None of > them succeed, but they copy almost all the data - only missing about 2% > of the copy. Unfortunately, that isn't quite what I want in a file system! :-) > > After it failed to copy a few files it seems like it proceeded to copy > others, and I didn't do anything special between the copies except > wait a while (like 5 minutes). > > I just looked at the console on the file server and saw a bunch of > ethernet errors, but none of them happened during the last couple of > copy attempts (I ran it again just to verify) even though there were a > bunch of IO errors reported by the copy, so it doesn't seem relevant, > but I'm reporting them for completeness: > > Nov 3 21:13:21 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, >entry 0xc length 0 status 00000600! > Nov 3 21:13:21 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df0100c0 vs df0100c0. > Nov 3 21:13:21 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, >entry 0xd length 1002 status 03ea8d00! > Nov 3 21:13:21 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df0100d0 vs df0100d0. > Nov 3 21:40:25 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, >entry 0x5 length 0 status 00000600! > Nov 3 21:40:25 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df010050 vs df010050. > Nov 3 21:40:25 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, >entry 0x6 length 1002 status 03ea8d00! > Nov 3 21:40:25 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df010060 vs df010060. > Nov 3 22:07:13 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, >entry 0x0 length 0 status 00000600! > Nov 3 22:07:13 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df010000 vs df010000. > Nov 3 22:07:13 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, >entry 0x1 length 1002 status 03ea8d00! > Nov 3 22:07:13 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df010010 vs df010010. > Nov 3 22:11:45 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, >entry 0xb length 0 status 00000600! > Nov 3 22:11:45 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df0100b0 vs df0100b0. > Nov 3 22:11:45 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame spanned multiple buffers, >entry 0xc length 1002 status 03ea8d00! > Nov 3 22:11:45 fs kernel: eth0: Oversized Ethernet frame df0100c0 vs df0100c0. > > Any help appreciated! > > ../Dave
