From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 1 16:47:14 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7439316A403 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 16:47:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alepulver@FreeBSD.org) Received: from relay00.pair.com (relay00.pair.com [209.68.5.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EE6F13C4C6 for ; Sun, 1 Apr 2007 16:47:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from alepulver@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 76342 invoked by uid 0); 1 Apr 2007 16:20:26 -0000 Received: from 190.55.91.88 (HELO deimos.mars.bsd) (190.55.91.88) by relay00.pair.com with SMTP; 1 Apr 2007 16:20:26 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 190.55.91.88 Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 13:19:43 -0300 From: Alejandro Pulver To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20070401131943.07a1fc75@deimos.mars.bsd> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.8.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_8UPhmyasfg7/Y/O23KTPOn8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 Cc: Subject: High disk load +mount/atacontrol/NFS/SMBFS crashes the system 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, 01 Apr 2007 16:47:14 -0000 --Sig_8UPhmyasfg7/Y/O23KTPOn8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello. I have experienced the following problem a couple of times in 2 different machines and FreeBSD versions (see below): when the disk is continuously reading/writing my system becomes unstable (it's not an everyday thing, but quite frustrating when it happens) and sometimes crashes. When copying from another machine by NFS/SMBFS more than one file at the same time (or when using the disk, like during a filesystem check in the background) often crashes (and the disk light indicator turns off). Running "atacontrol ad0 mode UDMA100" when it was UDMA133 crashed the system (the disk activity indicator was always on) when I tried to solve the problem that way. Also when I was installing a port which installs many files on the second machine without using NFS/SMBFS, trying to mount a local NTFS filesystem (with kernel driver) crashed. The first machine is an Athlon XP 2400+ with FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and custom kernel (see below) and the second one a new Athlon64 X2 3500 with FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE running in i386 mode, with generic SMP kernel. See the boot messages and kernel config here: http://people.freebsd.org/~alepulver/disk-crash.tar.bz2 Also I got (only twice, when checking the filesystem after one of these crashes) the following error on the first machine, that I don't know if it's related or not to the previous problems: fsync: giving up on dirty 0xc51d6990: tag devfs, type VCHR usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 806 mountedhere 0xc51a4000 flags () v_object 0xc144cb58 ref 0 pages 3232 lock type devfs: EXCL (count 1) by thread 0xc54e2c00 (pid 837) dev ad2s1f I would appreciate any help. Thanks and Best Regards, Ale P.S.: does this problem belong to a more specific list like freebsd-hackers@? --Sig_8UPhmyasfg7/Y/O23KTPOn8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFGD9ufiV05EpRcP2ERAqhTAJ90FXX1X7O01wjAmYtyDfk8nZdbbwCfT6r1 Wd3XjKyd/NGgNdWN+XlhPMw= =ev5L -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_8UPhmyasfg7/Y/O23KTPOn8--