From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qn6dM-00070L-CB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:19:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3072C21C299; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:18:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCF5A21C024 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 10:17:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxi13 with SMTP id 13so3574540yxi.40 for ; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:17:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zwmeFyrGrNUiV80cSEIaYrzmV5LyaIBmu1pTeQRELns=; b=ShHbE5cJim51YCuzTj9OyL37GlCFk6iVczEZ4CRLbm/5LldS2BMx4nQ+46pswqckyQ hm1LPKXXoBPO8LIOI+XCtp5jSITZFv4iYyH47vSj0TELXeRQIo1Pv38EJ2PaKeECt8JU JwoYY3iQphpsy/Ty0wmBkN4aeQ0OUI+QYptyU= Received: by 10.90.255.13 with SMTP id c13mr2007017agi.56.1312021074952; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-90-236.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.90.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l13sm545163anj.16.2011.07.30.03.17.53 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 30 Jul 2011 03:17:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E33DA50.6090001@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 05:17:52 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110708 Gentoo/2.0.14-r1 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] X Freezes With Firefox on Many Post 2.6.38 Kernels References: <20110725182047.GM30008@ns1.bonedaddy.net> <4E33496B.6010607@wonkology.org> <4E335107.5010709@gmail.com> <201107301104.37945.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201107301104.37945.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 306233e344dd0db53832fa66601daa14 Mick wrote: > On Saturday 30 Jul 2011 01:32:07 Dale wrote: > >> Alex Schuster wrote: >> >>> Am 30.07.2011 01:06, schrieb Dale: >>> >>>> I'm just curious as to how much longer dd is going to take. I wish it >>>> has some sort of a progress bar or something. :/ >>>> > dcfldd has a progress indicator AFAIR. > > To make sure that your dd speed is maxed out for the drive that you are dd-ing > on, you need to run some tests with different block sizes: > > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1000000 of=/tmp/1G_file.txt > dd if=/dev/zero bs=2048 count=500000 of=/tmp/1G_file.txt > dd if=/dev/zero bs=4096 count=250000 of=/tmp/1G_file.txt > dd if=/dev/zero bs=8192 count=125000 of=/tmp/1G_file.txt > > On my 500G drive 2048 gives the best speed. > > Then set bs=2048 or whatever is faster on yours when you run the dd command. > > I finally stopped it. It was almost done. Here is the update for this weird kernel panic problem. I did the dd thing. I created my partition like I had before and put ext4 on it this time. I restored the stuff I had backed up to the drive and then downloaded some videos to test the thing. It downloaded just fine. No panic or even a burp. What could have caused this? Could it be a file system problem? I don't think it is a physical failure since it is working now after giving it a fresh start. I just don't get how this could have caused a kernel panic. This is plain weird. Would love to hear some thoughts on what caused this problem given the fix. Dale :-) :-)