NOTICE: Spurious Interrupt - causes fs lockout

[spredwood]

SCO Openserver 5.0.6
IBM xSeries 232 - Dual 1.4 Pentium

I have noticed that each time the fs locks up that a console message appears:
CPU2: NOTICE: Sdsk: Spurious interrupt

We average 50-60 users on the system connecting via tcp telnet sessions. Twice within 24 hours the system has 'frozen' for any user accessing a specific data directory. Anyone outside this directory functions properly until they try opening a file from it. The problem is that this directory contains our company databases, are are accessed by most of our programs.

When the system is in this state, an 'ls' of the files causes the shell session to lock up, but a 'find' does not.

Over the last month and a half we have have 40 such notices:
NOTICE: Sdsk: Spurious interrupt
CPU2: NOTICE: Sdsk: Spurious interrupt
Which makes me think that this is not the only factor in routing out my problem, although at this time I do suspect that it has some influence upon it.

Any help, ideas would be gratefully received.

 

[stanhubble]

Make sure of your backups!!!

Is the directory a separate file system?

Make sure of your backups!!!

It sounds like the mount daemon is having a problem with a filesystem or disk. I have seen similar symptoms with a NFS mount that was not "soft" and the host machine was not responding.

Make sure of your backups!!!

You may have a device on the scsi chain that is ready to go south on you.

Oh... and did i mention

Make sure of your backups!!!