Hi Ewan,
On 07/03/11 12:47, Ewan MacMahon wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: GRIDPP2: Deployment and support of SRM and local storage management
>> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ben Waugh
>>
>> Hi Storage Experts,
>>
>> In the absence of any well-known procedure for burning in or stress
>> testing file servers,
>>
> There's the RAL Tier 1's recently published disk stressing tests.
>
>> one of the servers has stopped writing to the disks and
>> displays an impressive variety of errors in /var/log/messages, starting
>> with:
>
>> This is a SuperMicro server, running SL5, with an Adaptec RAID controller.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
> I've just been having similar looking trouble with a similar, if not
> identical, server that's been keeling over in a variety of ways under
> load from the RAL test scripts. Our is a Viglen one, so I've been
> emailing them a bit; who supplied yours?
Viglen. I'll let them know about our problems, but can you also let me
know if you get anything useful from them?
Cheers,
Ben
>
> Ewan
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