On Apr 20, 2004, Sean Bruno sean.bruno@dsl-only.net wrote:
I installed the kernel update today on four different machines. I haven't seen the kernel oops on the i686 boxes, but I am experiencing huge problems.
- On an SMP system(Dell PE 2650, Dual P4 2.6Ghz), the network
connectivity to two of them(tg3) is extrememly slow and is dropping packets left and right. I could barely get into the machines to change the grub.conf back to the previous release and reboot.
- On one of the SMP systems, NIS stopped working(maybe due to the
network problems?.
- On a PIII 850Mhz, there are no problems with the intel 10/100
adaptors and the system seems to be running fine.
Can I provide any other feedback, or should I tag these problems onto bugzilla #121350?
The problem I've had on 5 different boxes was filesystem I/O.
strace showed lstat64 system calls would take forever to complete (quite often 5-10 seconds); then a burst of progress was made and then it came to a halt again. Hard disk leds confirmed this access pattern, except for one of the boxes that had two disks in RAID 1 resyncing, whose disk access was constant. Very odd.