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Date:      Mon, 6 Jul 1998 22:13:33 +0000
From:      Niall Smart <rotel@indigo.ie>
To:        Tony Holmes <tony@crosswinds.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Load related wd problem
Message-ID:  <199807062113.WAA01507@indigo.ie>
In-Reply-To: Tony Holmes <tony@crosswinds.net> "Load related wd problem" (Jul  6, 11:33am)

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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

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Niall Smart.        PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk
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