Re: RedHat 9 aacraid - system fails under extreme disk IO - Repro ducable test case

Salyzyn, Mark wrote:

> The workaround in 2302 deals with the change in Firmware between 3157 and
> 3170, a change in priority of the cache flush operations. As there is a
> `regression risk' due to other changes in the Firmware, I would suggest that
> it would be better to extend the timeout in the hba reset code; linit.c line
> 847, change the value from 60 to 300 to see if the adapter comes back. At
> least this will follow the scientific investigation paradigm (change one
> thing at a time).
> 
> If the problem persists, we are dealing with a totally new issue. If the
> problem goes away (other more global timeouts notwithstanding), then we may
> have underestimated the worst case time resulting from the cache flush
> operation.
> 
> Sincerely -- Mark Salyzyn
> 

I get a kernel crash after a couple of hours :-/

-a

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