(Fwd) wait_buffer_until_released on Debian 3 i386 2.4.22

Hi,

the problem with the server crash has been repeated.

It' s a completely new machine, installed december, 21 2003.

The exact error in the logs is

Jan 20 18:54:50 lxworksystem kernel: vs-3050:
wait_buffer_until_released: nobody releases buffer (dev 68:07, size
4096, blocknr 3145728, count 3, list 0, state 0x10019, page c1568940,
(UPTODATE, CLEAN, UNLOCKED)). Still waiting (-1710000000)  JDIRTY
!JWAIT

and a smbd process is using 99% CPU. No Samba connect ist possible,
ssh works so I could read the errors from /var/log/messages.

Please let me know what I can do to solve this error as it's
occurring now every 2-3 days!

As I wrote before the machine is a HP Compaq ProLiant ML 350 G3 with
512 MB of memory, a Compaq Smart Array 641 with 128 MB cache and 4
discs (Compaq, I don't know the manufacturer) each 36 GB 10k rpm that
are forming a hardware RAID5 array so the OS sees only one big drive
with around 100 GB, and yes, the biggest partition with 87 G has
about 46 GBs of data.

Thank you in advance!

Wolfgang

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Date sent:              Fri, 16 Jan 2004 13:53:27 +0100
Subject:                wait_buffer_until_released on Debian 3 i386 2.4.22
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Hi,

I' m having a problem on a HP/Compaq ProLiant ML350 with a SmartArray
641 RAID controller. Sometimes (the first time ten days ago, the
second time yesterday eventing) a smbd process seems to provocate a
wait_buffer_until_released error. The smbd process is taking 100% of
the CPU, no Windows client can do anything, but sshd works so I can
connect.

Unfortunately, I was not able to see the messages after the reboot.
For the OS the drive is one big drive with about 100 G space....

Is there any patch or fix or something other I can do?

Thank you very much!

Wolfgang


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