Copying large files from USB hard drive to RAID 5,XFS array causes Soft Lockup on CPU
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cpio (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: cpio
Using cpio -pvdm to copy lots of files from a USB drive to a RAID 5
array (XFS) causes this error.
Using Ubuntu server 8.10, release 8.10, fully patched.
AMD Quad core, 8GB, SATA-300 drives in mdadm managed array.
External drive is NTFS.
dmesg gives: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s! [cpio:685]
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Dependencies:
libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1ubuntu12
gcc-4.3-base 4.3.2-1ubuntu12
findutils 4.4.0-2ubuntu3
libc6 2.8~20080505-
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
ExecutablePath: /bin/cpio
Package: cpio 2.9-13ubuntu2
ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
ProcEnviron:
SHELL=/bin/bash
PATH=/
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SourcePackage: cpio
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-7-server x86_64
summary: |
- Copying large files from USB drive to RAID 5 array bauses Soft Lockup + Copying large files from USB hard drive to RAID 5,XFS array causes Soft + Lockup on CPU |
description: | updated |
I also see the same with cp so I suspect this is probably a kernel issue rather than cp or cpio.