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Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:43:08 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@lsi.com>
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Subject: Re: Pauses on beast
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I'll put 2.6.32 on there and we'll see how that goes.


On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 11:54:10 -0600 "Liu, Yifeng" <Yifeng.Liu@lsi.com>
wrote:

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> From: Ian Brown =E2=98=85 [mailto:ian.brown@gmail.com]
> Sent: 2009=E5=B9=B410=E6=9C=887=E6=97=A5 10:42
> To: Liu, Yifeng
> Subject: Fwd: Pauses on beast
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> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: Eric Barrett
> <eric.barrett@onstor.com<mailto:eric.barrett@onstor.com>> Date:
> November 24, 2008 3:14:45 PM PST To: John Rogers
> <john.rogers@onstor.com<mailto:john.rogers@onstor.com>>, dl-IT
> <dl-IT@onstor.com<mailto:dl-IT@onstor.com>>, Ian Brown
> <ian.brown@onstor.com<mailto:ian.brown@onstor.com>> Subject: RE:
> Pauses on beast
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> John,
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> Very cool that you found this!
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> Looks like we can try some of the workarounds people used in that
> thread.  Even so, it's a good reason to accelerate the virtualization
> of beast's various services.
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> -E
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> ________________________________________
> From: John Rogers
> Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 2:28 PM
> To: Eric Barrett; dl-IT; Ian Brown
> Subject: Pauses on beast
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> Hi guys,
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> I have setup monitoring of beast. You can check it out at
> http://cacti/cacti/graph_view.php click on linux servers and then
> beast.onstor.net<http://beast.onstor.net>.
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> I noticed that even snmpd doesn=E2=80=99t respond on the half hours, or at
> least one of them that we=E2=80=99ve experienced so far.
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> I did a little digging into beasts=E2=80=99 logs and found these irq erro=
rs.
> eth1: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq.
> eth1: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq.
> eth1: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq.
> eth1: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq.
> eth1: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq.
> eth1: too many iterations (6) in nv_nic_irq.
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> A couple web searches turned up multiple hits. This one in particular
> seems most interesting. It seems to be a problem with the hardware
> combination and the kernel.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/130075
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> Thoughts? Proposals for solutions?
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> John
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