From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 17 17:28:55 2010 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 B133A106566B for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:28:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from news@enfer-du-nord.net) Received: from mail.enfer-du-nord.net (mail.enfer-du-nord.net [87.98.177.233]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77DFA8FC12 for ; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:28:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (from news@localhost) by news.enfer-du-nord.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o0HHEvRW077469 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:14:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from news) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Path: not-for-mail From: Michael Grimm Newsgroups: muc.lists.freebsd.questions Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:14:57 +0000 (UTC) Organization: ATK - Alternative Tierklinik links der Einfalt Lines: 26 Message-ID: X-Trace: de-l.enfer-du-nord.net eJwVyskRwDAIBLCWYo4Fl4MX038JSb4auWKBYXCYj0+YMHi76tcS7Dy7eaZQqRfFSF1qB+yNlOWRt1zjPpTmAxGvhskXzYYv8k8aVw== (17 Jan 2010 17:14:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@de-l.enfer-du-nord.net User-Agent: slrn/pre1.0.0-15/mm/ao (Darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s4cXjivuRbeXCZUxe8HfZ4K6Lb8= Mail-Copies-To: nobody Subject: gmirror+gjournal: spontaneous reboots on "excessive" disk access 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: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:28:55 -0000 Hi -- I'm running a gmirror raid1 plus gjournal for a year now. This is a 7.2-RELEASE-p6 right now. Both disks are regular ATA and healthy according smartctl. Sometimes, not always though, I do experience spontaneous reboots without leaving any hints in logfiles whenver I "beat" my disks "excessively". This might be something like: dd if=/dev/null of=/some/file bs=1M count=4k plus parallel disk accesses by mail and news server. If I omit all parallel disk access those dd's will run to completion without reboots, always. It might well be that there is something wrong with my hardware (co-located, no access to the console available). Thus, before addressing support I'd like to know: has anyone else seen reboots under those conditions? Regards, Michael -- to let