From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 17 18:25:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F399916A4CE for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:25:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D4ED343D1F for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:25:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 97521 invoked by uid 1002); 18 Feb 2004 02:25:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 18 Feb 2004 02:25:46 -0000 Message-ID: <4032CC86.7000800@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 19:23:02 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Lachlan O'Dea References: <20040217102453.V59439@lorax.ldc.upenn.edu> <4032A691.3020006@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: "Jason M. Leonard" cc: Raphael.Becker@gmx.de Subject: Re: kernel panic after 5.2 RELEASE --> 5.2.1, DELL PE2650, SCSI X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 02:25:49 -0000 Lachlan O'Dea wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 18 Feb 2004, at 10:41, Scott Long wrote: > >> Jason M. Leonard wrote: >> >>> Without seeing the actual SCSI errors it is hard to say, but I was >>> experiencing a very similar issue with my PE2650. Disabling write >>> caching >>> on the RAID 1 container cleared it up. I do not know if that is the >>> best >>> way to go about it, but this server had to be in production pronto, so I >>> was happy. >>> :Fuzz >> >> >> If there is any way that you could send me the errors that you were >> getting, I would appreciate it. > > > Hi Scott, > > This may be completely unrelated, but I just went from 5.2-RELEASE to > 5.2.1-RC2. After a while started seeing lots of these on the console: > > aac0: command 0xXXXXXX timeout after 8597 seconds As was mentioned, changing /sys/dev/aac/aacvar.h:AAC_MAX_FIBS from 512 to 504 will work around this problem. I'll commit this to RELENG_5_2 in a minute. > > and, less often: > > swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: device: aacd0s1e , blkno: 2, size: 4096 This is a result of the timeout error. > > I managed to observe the system in top the second time this happened. > One after another, each process freezes forever in getblk. Kind of scary > to watch :-). > > With 5.2-RELEASE, I was seeing the blocked processes, but I don't recall > seeing all of that console output before. I haven't actually seen > experienced any problems with 5.2-RELEASE for a while, I just have to > avoid long-running find(1) processes. (E.g. put > daily_status_security_enable="NO" in periodic.conf). The same problem exists in 5.2. I thought that I had fixed it, but apparently not. Scott > > - -- > Lachlan O'Dea > Computer Associates > Senior Software Engineer > tel: +61 3 8416 5627 > fax: +61 3 8416 5810 > mobile: +61 412 390 650 > odela01@ca.com > > Relax and enjoy your shoes! > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFAMqu7oBZahcUBONoRAjwEAJ9lgMapehhkWm31HW+F0UjS9yXTKQCeJ55i > y7ovo0uuLjuzqQk39Aaf6kw= > =gGgc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >