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Re: [Xen-devel] Network stops responding after some time

To: Jeff Lane <sundowner225@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Network stops responding after some time
From: Adnan Khaleel <adnan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:20:15 -0500
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Thanks for your response. 

I followed your suggestion. I waited for the network to come down and then I 
ran a badblocks. The test took a while to run but it didn't crash the system. I 
tried this several times hoping it would crash the system but it never did.
I attached a good harddrive to hdb, and looking at dmesg, it also reported irq 
timeouts just like hda and hdc.

So its strange that the system, in spite its quirkyness, is still stable. Any 
ideas what might be the culprit?

Thanks

Adnan

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Lane <sundowner225@xxxxxxxxx>
To: adnan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 21 Jun 2006 10:03:29 -0500
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] Network stops responding after some time


> >hda: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
> >hda: drive_cmd: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
> 
> Are you sure you aren't having hard disk issues that are causing wacky
> things to happen after so long???  I noticed a lot of hdc errors (but
> that is your DVD) but hda seems to be your only hard disk, and its
> spitting out at least one error,which may be setting the drive
> offline, thus you get problems.
> 
> The OS will continue to run for the most part since its all in memory,
> but is your system usable at all after this starts occuring??
> 
> In other words, when your network starts doing weird stuff, can you
> run something disk intensive like a badblocks check or something like
> that without killing the system??
> 


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