Re: [SLUG] Explain this please

From: Bob Stia (rnr@sanctum.com)
Date: Fri Jan 21 2005 - 01:11:50 EST


On Thursday 20 January 2005 08:00, Daniel Jarboe wrote:
> > No, no change. As installed about a month ago on a brand new system
> > & upgraded the distro to SuSE 9.2 at the same time. For your
> > info; there are 4 other partitions on hdb. All are ext3. Would I
> > get similar messages for hdb3, hdb5, etc. ??
>
> Yes, I would expect so, the first time they are written to after
> boot.

Hmmm...that puzzles me, because I don't get the barrier message on those
other partitions of that drive, and lsmod says that jbd is running.
>
> > > This jbd message can be
> > > considered a warning. Does an lsmod show jbd?
> >
> > lsmod shows jbd running.
>
> I suppose it's possible that the device does not support barrier
> requests. Are you
> running with a SuSE-built kernel? If so, are you running the latest
> maintenance?
> YaST will tell you (Online Update?).

Yes, latest updated SuSE kernel.
>
> > For your further info. Reviewed the boot message for tonight. The
> > following are single lines from the message which I selected as
> > suspicious and need to be investigated. As stated earlier this all
> > started because of wild time problem. (have contacted the seller
> > and they have offered to replace the motherboard ) I doubt the
> > problems are related ?
>
> The jbd and the timer problems really should be unrelated. For the
> lost ticks problem I would try to boot with noapic if you are running
> the latest SuSE kernel
> maintenance.

I will try noapic, and the new motherboard should already be on the way.

Will let the list know what happens after a few days.

Bob S.
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