Subject: Re: [vserver] opteron server dies with vserver patch.
From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:24:25 +0200

On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 08:44:20AM +0200, Pawe?? Sikora wrote:
> On Monday 08 of August 2011 22:13:33 Herbert Poetzl wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 09:45:38PM +0200, Pawe?? Sikora wrote:
>>> On Monday 08 of August 2011 20:29:37 Herbert Poetzl wrote:

>>>> could you upload those sections (without line break) and
>>>> also mark the <xx> bytes in the dumps, I'm having a hard
>>>> time to determine them from the screenshot ...
>>>> (seems to be cut off on the right side)

>>> i'll try to catch these stack traces again tomorrow
>>> and adjust monitor to read <xx> markers...

>>>> btw, how long does it take till those traces show up

>>> it varies... from few minutes to few hours.

>> well, that's actually a good thing, i.e. we can
>> easily enable more debugging info/output and
>> analyze the actual problem

> heh, the observed opteron's machine lock also occurs on a
> loaded desktop machine with single disk and quad-core i3 cpu. 

> I'm wondering if the ext4 filesystem could be a faulty element? 

what kernel/patch version was that again?

> all these locking machines have ext4. i'll check ext3 in the
> next week...

good idea ...

best,
Herbert