[CentOS] SCSI not settling???

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Gé Weijers wrote:
> Thanks for answering.
>
> a) The workstation has:
> - CPU E5-2687W
> - 32 GB RAM (ECC)
> - AMD FirePro V7900, original graphics card. (This happens with both the
> AMD driver installed and not installed.)
> - MegaRAID SAS 2008 controller configured for RAID1
>
> I had a quad PCIe serial card in it as well, but I have removed it. No
> change.
>
> b) It's was not a fresh install, but it's been doing this only recently.
> It
> started out with CentOS 6.3 or so in november 2012.
>
> I saw some kernel oopses as well, I'm wondering whether the RAID
> controller is going bad.

Hard to tell from this. Anything significant in dmesg | tail? I've seen
that damn swapper/tainted, but there's some tuning that can be done, that
might be hugepage issues.
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