Paul M.
2006-Apr-29 09:23 UTC
[Xen-users] SATA Controller Loosing Interrupt During High Speed Access To RAID Array
A server I''ve been setting up has been experiencing "lockups" during sustained high speed access to its hardware RAID controller. The "lockup" is actual the system loosing access to the SATA disk that the system partitions reside on. The error message reported to the console leads me to believe that the SATA disk/controller "lost" its interrupt. I''m fairly sure that this isn''t power or hardware related. And I''m betting that 3ware''s Linux drives on amd64 are stable. But I won''t be able to rule these out for sure until I run a few more tests. After I finish this I''ll capture the error message if it still looks to be Xen related. I''m posting this now to see if this sort of thing has been seen before. Hard: 1x dual core opteron 275 4GB RAM Silicone Image SATA controller w/ 1x SATA drive 3WARE ESCALAD 9550SX-4LP SATA w/ 2x SATA drives Soft: Xen 3.0.1 & 3.0.2 dom0 Debian 31r0a Using a custom compiled kernel I run into problems when I use dd to either read or write a >=8GB file to the drive. Light disk access does not cause problems. When I ran the array in RAID1 (~75MB/s sustained write) I didn''t get any errors. When I switched it to RAID0 (~150MB/s sustained write) the errors came back. Lemme know if you have any thoughts on this. I''ll repost when I have more information. -Paul _______________________________________________ Xen-users mailing list Xen-users@lists.xensource.com http://lists.xensource.com/xen-users