Re: computer freezes

• To: Mark Tucker <mark.tucker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: computer freezes
• From: Steve Emmerson <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Mon, 09 May 2005 08:21:52 -0600

Mark,

I would have responded to this thread earlier but I was out late last week. We had tons of problems with our ldm server running Linux last fall which sounds very similar to the behavior you are describing. I had migrated our LDM from Freebsd to Linux (Slackware, not that it makes much difference) and had huge problems with I/O waits bogging the entire system down. ...

What version of the kernel were you running?  For example

   $ uname -r
   2.6.11-1.14_FC3smp

Versions of the 2.6 kernel earlier than 2.6.10 (I think) appear to have
a very bad I/O performance bug.

Regards,
Steve Emmerson

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