System freeze on large file/heavy disk
-- Background:
I'm running on nforce4 (Tyan K8WE), dual opteron, 3 SATA hard drives (1x36 gb and 2x74 gb WD raptors), 3 GB RAM, installed CentOS 4.4 and ran yum update.
# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.9-42.0.3.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Oct 6 06:28:26 CDT 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I set SELinux to warn when installing CentOS.
-- Problem:
I mounted an ntfs file system and tried to copy over a bunch of files, some of which were large (~1 GB). The system would freeze up (no UI response to input) when it was processing a large file.
During this, I see lots of these in syslog:
Nov 14 14:40:47 localhost kernel: ata3: command 0xc8 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24
Nov 14 14:40:47 localhost kernel: ata3: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
Nov 14 14:40:47 localhost kernel: Info fld=0x33ca186, Current sdb: sense key No
Sense
Nov 14 14:40:47 localhost kernel: ata4: command 0xca timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24
Nov 14 14:40:47 localhost kernel: ata4: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete }
Nov 14 14:40:47 localhost kernel: Info fld=0x2000000, Current sdc: sense key No
Sense
Nov 14 14:40:47 localhost kernel: ata3: command 0xc8 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stat 0x24
I was setting up vmware and it was creating a virtual disk of 32 GB. The system froze--I let it site for over an hour. After a hard reset, I checked and it had only set up under 3 GB.
Any ideas what's causing this freeze?
Thanks!
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