From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jul 6 14:18:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20241 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:18:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indigo.ie (nsmart@ts01-62.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20179; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 14:18:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (from nsmart@localhost) by indigo.ie (8.8.8/8.8.7) id WAA01507; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:13:34 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) From: Niall Smart Message-Id: <199807062113.WAA01507@indigo.ie> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:13:33 +0000 In-Reply-To: Tony Holmes "Load related wd problem" (Jul 6, 11:33am) Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: Tony Holmes , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load related wd problem Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Jul 6, 11:33am, Tony Holmes wrote: } Subject: Load related wd problem > > My systems range from 2.2.1 to 2.2.6 (with some stable patches thrown in) > and provide a myriad of services, but I have only recently been able to > verify the existence of a problem with heavy access to IDE disks. > > When the IDE disks are under heavy load, they will take down the system with > no warning. This occurs across all versions - it find it easy to duplicate > the problem - on a web server, while the http server is up, I will do some > custom processing on the log files (cat, grepping, etc.) which hits the IDE > disks hard. After a time (usually after 10-15 minutes) the system hangs > and can only be rescued with a hard reset. Hi Tony, I saw a PR go on a while back for a similar problem, it was some problem about using one variable for all disks instead of one each, I can't remember the details. Anyway, I'm not sure if it was even committed, but it might be worth searching freebsd.org to see if you can find it, sorry I can't be more help. Niall -- Niall Smart. PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations: www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message