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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o, gentoo-user <gentoo-user@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] hard lockups w/nfs, md raid5
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:00:01
Message-Id: 7573e9640602271151h137e529cu37c9572572ec9b95@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] hard lockups w/nfs, md raid5 by matthew.garman@gmail.com
1 On 2/27/06, matthew.garman@×××××.com <matthew.garman@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > My questions are: (1) does anyone know what might have caused the
3 > lockups?
4
5 My experience has been that lockups occuring during heavy IO can be
6 caused by aggressive memory timings. If your BIOS supports it, try
7 increasing the memory timings.
8
9 Also try the memory test script from here, but it does pretty much
10 what you were describing...massive IO and memory bandwidth test:
11
12 http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html
13
14 -Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] hard lockups w/nfs, md raid5 matthew.garman@×××××.com