On Tuesday 06 January 2009 09:05, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Tuesday, 2009-01-06 at 07:25 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Why should that matter?
Because on 11.1, it matters. There is an open bugzilla, re reiser and beagle crashing machines.
Is it the combination of all three? 11.1 + ReiserFS + Beagle? Or is it just 11.1 and Reiser?
Yep, the three. The guess is that beagle exercises the filesystem, perhaps by using a rare functionality, that triggers this fault. There could be other programs triggering this, too: no way to know, since we plain users do not know what the problem really is (Bug 448007).
That makes me wonder if the activity of, say, Google Desktop might not expose one to similar risk of a crash.
And yes, this or something very similar also affected 11.0 at the beginning. Even now my 11.0 likes to lock about once a month, reason unknown.
My 10.0 system does this, too, with about the same frequency. It's usually in conjunction with disk activity (if I'm around and using the system when it happens and the monitor is not in the screen saver or in power-save mode, I'll see the System Monitor dock applet shoing a lot of green (I/O wait) in the CPU column). Since the lock-up is, as far as I can tell, total (no virtual console switching, to SSH access, mouse frozen, caps- and num-lock lights non-responsive, no response of any sort), I'm always forced to do a reset or power cycle and thus never get any information on what's really going wrong.
Notice that no filesystem is completely safe: for instance, I have opened bugzillas (Bug 345039) against xfs crashing the system, when you use the combination of xfs, encryption, and large file write.
My problem with XFS has been limited to files containing all zeros if they were in use (i.e., if they were recently written) when one of the aforementioned lock-ups (or the occasional power failure) occurs. That's annoying, but the files in question have always been those for which I have backups or are inconsequential, so it hasn't been a tragedy when it does happen. Thanks for the information.
-- Cheers, Carlos E. R.
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