From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 13 10:45:07 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32C916A501 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27B7813C4F2 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:45:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JPF6s-0004Jz-9E for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:45:02 +0000 Received: from lara.cc.fer.hr ([161.53.72.113]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:45:02 +0000 Received: from ivoras by lara.cc.fer.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:45:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ivan Voras Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:45:41 +0100 Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <38768.209.240.66.157.1202851338.squirrel@www.nathansouer.com> <47B21924.5030702@bsdforen.de> <63459.70.58.238.235.1202884507.squirrel@www.nathansouer.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig5D3F7A445BE368BBC763F059" X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: lara.cc.fer.hr User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) In-Reply-To: <63459.70.58.238.235.1202884507.squirrel@www.nathansouer.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.0 Sender: news Subject: Re: Kernel Panic with heavy disk i/o while running on battery X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:45:07 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig5D3F7A445BE368BBC763F059 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Nathan Alan Souer wrote: >> Nathan Alan Souer wrote: >>> In advance, I appreciate any help that anyone has to offer. When my >>> laptop >>> is running on battery and there is heavy i/o on the disk The machine >>> kernel panics and reboots. I have updated my base system to current >>> (7_releng) just a couple days ago in an effort to resolve this issue,= to >>> no change. >>> >> I would start with a memory test program. I have seen similar things >> happen >> with broken memory. > the machine passes a full pass of memtest86+ Just checking - you did the test in the same conditions (on battery power) as the crash? I have a suggestion that's a bit silly but it might help - can you boot of a live/fixit CD and calculate a hash of the drive's content, on and off AC power, to see if it's a hardware problem with the controller or the drive? (dd if=3D/dev/drive bs=3D1m | md5) --------------enig5D3F7A445BE368BBC763F059 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHsspWldnAQVacBcgRAjJuAKDNJMpzcq4B3kPxULY6m0qhJNFCrgCfYPSW Ixs4jPIXzVBo+CIwRW9d6Uw= =yFgj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig5D3F7A445BE368BBC763F059--