From owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 07:41:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BA0737B401 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:41:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail15.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.215]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C8D43FB1 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 07:41:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 12804 invoked from network); 14 Aug 2003 14:41:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender )encrypted SMTP for ; 14 Aug 2003 14:41:35 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7EEfX9s065211; Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:41:34 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.4 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20030814124522.G64942@mail.physik.uni-mainz.de> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 10:41:56 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: "Hartmann, O." cc: smp@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.1-R-p2 crashes on SMP with AMI RAID and Intel 1000/Pro X-BeenThere: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD SMP implementation group List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2003 14:41:37 -0000 On 14-Aug-2003 Hartmann, O. wrote: > On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Hartmann, O. wrote: > > Dear John. > > I go to try an UP kernel today, but I make no promises. > > I changed today these three config line in the running, but > crashing kernel: > > options HZ=1000 > options PQ_CACHESIZE=256 > options AUTO_EOI_1 > > I commented them all out because I suspect them causing trouble. > But this kernel does not boot anymore, it gets stuck at the same place > (showing amrd0 raid is ok) as the other ones. > > The nasty thing is I can not downgrade to 4.8 because I used UFS2, > so I'm highly interested in getting this weird TYAN Thunder 2500 SMP > system to work. > > I remember myself that the first occurence of those massive IRQ problems > occured after one of the AMI/LSI RAID BIOS updates, which where necessary > due to problems with IBM harddrives. Please be aware that I have the newest > BIOS installed (but the problems where present with the previous ones also). > > I'll send you dmesg output with UP kernel if it works. I remember myself about > a kernel boot option to force the loader to tell the kernel to boot > more verbose. Can you tell me this option? I think it will be more suitable to get a > verbose kernel log than this short one ... boot -v will give you the verbose boot output. If you have another machine available you can boot using a serial console (type 'set console=comconsole' in the loader and the console will move to COM1 at 9600 bps) and log that output which wilh let you send it to the list. -- John Baldwin <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/