From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 21 09:46:40 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 0588916A4CF for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 09:46:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.rdsnet.ro (smtp.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 303F843D49 for ; Fri, 21 May 2004 09:46:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 30515 invoked by uid 89); 21 May 2004 16:37:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.131) by 0 with SMTP; 21 May 2004 16:37:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 31553 invoked from network); 21 May 2004 16:44:59 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buh.cameradicommercio.ro) (81.196.25.19) by mail.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 21 May 2004 16:44:59 -0000 Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [192.168.0.10]) by buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2146A6147; Fri, 21 May 2004 19:44:37 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68982127; Fri, 21 May 2004 19:48:57 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro ([127.0.0.1])port 10024) with ESMTP id 35887-06; Fri, 21 May 2004 19:48:56 +0300 (EEST) Received: from it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (localhost.buh.cameradicommercio.ro [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro (Postfix) with SMTP id 6A03713; Fri, 21 May 2004 19:48:56 +0300 (EEST) Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:48:55 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: Panagiotis Astithas Message-Id: <20040521194855.141f4757@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <40AE2776.30806@noc.ntua.gr> References: <40AE2776.30806@noc.ntua.gr> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.2) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: Konstantin 'Kosta' Welke Subject: Re: Freezes on heavy disk I/O 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: Fri, 21 May 2004 16:46:40 -0000 On Fri, 21 May 2004 18:59:50 +0300 Panagiotis Astithas wrote: > Konstantin 'Kosta' Welke wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've got a box running FreeBSD 5.2.1. Sometimes, it just > > freezes. Doesn't react to _any_thing except a hard reset. > > > > This is reproductable in some cases, all involving mainly > > disk I/O. > > > > 1) When burning a CD (on another computer) from a samba share > > on the freebsd box, the box repliably freezes. This also > > happens when I'm encoding a DVD rip to avi on my windows box, > > while the DVD files are on the freebsd samba server. > > > > 2) When doing stuff like portupgrade -a, it often (but always > > at different files/ports) freezes. This happens especially > > often when compiling gcc. (That's why I'm using the package now). > > > > 3) Sometimes it just freezes like this, when playing an mp3, > > surfing the 'net, etc. > > > > I used memtest enabling all test for 9 hours finding no errors. > > Also, it's no overheating problem as it is not overclocked > > nor is there any hot air coming out of the CPU fan when those > > freezes occur. > > > > Any ideas? > > I have similar observations in my 5.2.1 machine. The recurring theme has > always been that I was running under X and the freeze killed the > console, although the machine responded to ping. > > When I tried the same action (a "portsdb -uU" or "portupgrade -a" in my > case) from a virtual console I saw a panic. Since this never happens on > my -current machine, I believe it is something already fixed in the tree. Actually I think it still happens; I've had the need for a few hard resets on my desktop with -current about 1 1/2 months; but it definitely happen less that about 6 months or about a year ago, so it seems we're on the right way :) -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"