From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 09:01:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B29C37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pc2-cove3-6-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com (pc2-cove3-6-cust88.brhm.cable.ntl.com [81.107.10.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46AB54400D for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 09:01:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) Received: from gamma.private.lan (gamma.private.lan [192.168.0.12]) id h7EG0hRN004671; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:00:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from ianjhart@ntlworld.com) From: ian j hart To: Jim Zajkowski , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 17:00:43 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <3E8F6DEC.50505@alternatives.ca> <200308061341.52879.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> <9C410768-CDCE-11D7-B472-000393B4B272@jimz.net> In-Reply-To: <9C410768-CDCE-11D7-B472-000393B4B272@jimz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308141700.43482.ianjhart@ntlworld.com> cc: Scott Long Subject: Re: problems with ultra320 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 16:01:37 -0000 On Wednesday 13 August 2003 9:42 pm, Jim Zajkowski wrote: > On Wednesday, August 6, 2003, at 8:41 AM, ian j hart wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 April 2003 4:51 am, Scott Long wrote: > >> Sebastien G wrote: > >>> Well, Thank you Scott. > >>> > >>> I set the tag depth to 32 and everything went ok (make buildworld & > >>> installworld) ! Do you think it is a good enough solution to use > >>> this > >>> systeme in production? > >> > >> We've had reports from various Large Corporate Users that lowering the > >> tag depth to 32 results in satisfactory stability for them. YMMV. > > On the side, lowering the tag depth to 32 on a LSI Logic 1030 (Fusion > MPT) seems to have fixed our stability problems as well. > > --Jim My (dump and) restore still fell over at -N 32, but 31 was okay. The drives are now in production. but since it's the holidays, there's no load. -- ian j hart Quoth the raven, bite me! Salem Saberhagen (Episode LXXXI: The Phantom Menace)