Re: ext3, S/W RAID-5 and many services

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct redhat com>]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 04:15:28PM +0900, P. Fleury wrote:
 
> I use ext3 over Software RAID-5, and access this through Samba/NFS/HTTP. 
>  From time to time, the machine  hangs,  no response to any kind of 
> input (ping does not respond, nor keyboard/mouse). Only hard-reset does 
> the trick.
> 
> I also notices that 2 of the 7 disks are in UDMA 33, the others in UDMA 
> 100. Does this have any impact ? (besides performance)
> 
> If I do not mount the ext3 partition, it runs fine. Any help ?

Can you trap kernel log output, in case there's an oops being
reported?  If you have a text-mode console, you may have to copy it
down by hand.  If not, it is possible to set up a serial console and
record the kernel output on another machine.

Cheers,
 Stephen