[Linux-aus] strange NVMe errors when USB is busy

[James Cameron]

On Sun, Jan 26, 2025 at 05:47:33PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
> On Sunday, 26 January 2025 14:51:47 AEDT James Cameron wrote:
> > My initial response would be to reproduce and try later kernels.
> 
> It keeps happening on the current system, wiping 2 more disks now
> and getting the same result.

Wiping disks is usually lots of dirty buffers and a slow dequeue of
write I/O to the target.  free(1) and /proc/meminfo may illustrate the
effect.  You might try the nocache package, or dd with conv=nocache.

If that does nothing, well and good.  If it helps, then it points at
memory as a contributor to the problem.

By the way, do the kernel reports of NVMe aborts show up in any way
higher up the stack, like in user-space failures?