[BlueOnyx:07331] Re: Can someone offer any insight on what is causing this crash on a DL360 G4?

[Darrell D. Mobley]

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> Subject: [BlueOnyx:07329] Re: Can someone offer any insight on what is
> causing this crash on a DL360 G4?
> 
> > I have been experiencing this same issue with a DL380 G3 with six drives
> > in a RAID5.........
> 
> Darrell,
> 
> I continued to have the same thing happen and after one too many times I
> decided to bite the bullet and move on so I grabbed another DL360 G4 I
> have ( double the memory but that means nothing here ) and used the 
> latest iso to install BO again then followed exactly the same build 
> documentation ( I have a very specific purpose for these machines that 
> requires a consistent setup ) and the new machine ran without issue.
> 
> So when I was happy with the replacement I blew away the original machine
> and did exactly the same thing - same build document and it has continued
> to run 100% for the last few days ( the previous build would last 8 hours
> before a crash ) so I have no idea of what the problem was but as long as
> the machine continues to run without an issue now I am happy.

Tony, the problem is the HP Raid Controller and the later kernel builds.  It
happens under heavy disk usage where the controller hasn't finished writing
to disk.  I rolled back to an older kernel based on several tickets I saw on
the Redhat site and I have not had a crash since either.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=605444 

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615543