[comp.sys.sgi] bad page read under 3.3 ???

millercb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Clifford B Miller) (11/21/90)

Hi 3.3 folks,
Many thanks to SGI who (finally) solved my 3.3 diskless client
problems.  We have several 3.3 diskless clients up now, and now
I have a new question for anyone with 3.3 running who has seen
random processes sporadically die with the message in SYSLOG:

>Nov 11 13:16:24 daiju grcond[549]: CIO: WARNING:
>  Process cron (394) killed due to bad page read (errno:5)

This occurs on a 3.3 diskless client (PI) getting its root/share/swap
from a 3.3 server (4D-320-S).  I have seen cron, emacs, FrameMaker,
and a variety of other processes sporadically die on all my
diskless clients running from this server (it's our only 3.3 server).
When these errors occur, there is no indication of a problem on
the server -- at least, no messages appear in the SERVER's SYSLOG,
only the client's.

Any clues/fixes that would help me?  Many thanks in advance,
Cliff
--email to cliff@research.nec.com, thanks.
 Clifford B. Miller, Research Associate / Systems Administrator
 NEC Research Institute, 4 Independence Way, Princeton, NJ  08540
 Internet: cliff@research.nec.com		phone: (609) 951-2688
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srp@babar.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Scott R. Presnell) (11/21/90)

millercb@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Clifford B Miller) writes:

>Hi 3.3 folks,
>Many thanks to SGI who (finally) solved my 3.3 diskless client
>problems.  We have several 3.3 diskless clients up now, and now
>I have a new question for anyone with 3.3 running who has seen
>random processes sporadically die with the message in SYSLOG:

>>Nov 11 13:16:24 daiju grcond[549]: CIO: WARNING:
>>  Process cron (394) killed due to bad page read (errno:5)

I see these too, but on a "diskful" 4D25G IRIX 3.3.1.  The swap area is on
the local disk.  There don't seem to be any other indications of possible
disk problems.  I can understand errno=5 (I/O error), but the errnos in my
case are more like 134 (which is ESTALE - huh? - no stale handles here...)

	"I'd like to find out what this is all about."

	- Scott 


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