Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3566 mails)

[Randall R Schulz <rschulz@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 21 April 2007 09:50, John Pierce wrote:
> I have opensuse 10.2 installed on an HP Pavilion DV9208nr and have
> been using the xfs file system. I have been having random lockups 
> and I am converting the file systems to ext3 from xfs.

I would not attribute these symptoms to XFS. XFS is a mature, stable 
file system, at least as much as any other available in SuSE Linux / 
openSUSE.

If your system is unstable, I'd diagnose the problem, probably 
hardware-related in this case, before a protracted file system 
conversion that is unlikely to yield any improvement.


If you can establish a login via ssh or telnet from another computer 
(only use telnet if the connection is via network link that's behind a 
firewall or otherwise isolated from the Internet) in advance of the 
symptom, then when the hang occurs you may still be able to run some 
commands such as ps, top or one of the various monitoring commands. The 
first thing to look for is processes hung in a 'D' wait state (using 
ps). This can sometimes be the result of software problems (disk or 
file system drive bugs) but when it occurs frequently is probably the 
sign of a problem with a disk drive, controller or bus interface 
component.


> ...
>
> Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

You have mine.


> --
> John

Randall Schulz
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