From owner-freebsd-scsi Wed Oct 11 10:32:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 997B337B503 for ; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:32:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA27749; Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:32:17 -0700 Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:32:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: dbhague@allstor-sw.co.uk Cc: freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Stressed SCSI subsystem locks up the system In-Reply-To: <80256975.005FCFA0.00@mail.plasmon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Your information is still somewhat sparse- were there no console messages? Can you build a kernel that has console debugger support and break to the console debugger to find where it's wedged? Are you running SMP? What other cards (ethernet), etc.... There's nothing to demonstrate that this is directly a SCSI problem. On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 dbhague@allstor-sw.co.uk wrote: > We have a system using FreeBSD 3.0 which we have been using without problems for > many months. > > We have attached a SCSI RAID system, via an AHA3940 and during a stress test the > system hangs. > > The stress test is seven processes running which create a large number of small > files than deletes them all. > > The symptom is that the system locks up, no output on console and nothing > logged. > > We have tried this on several different hardware platforms and got the same > result. We have tried it on WindowsNT and the test appears to run okay. > > We have tried it on FreeBSD 4.0, and 4.1 and get the same the bug. Linux also > has a problem when we run our test. > > Help ! > > I have mailed freebsd-bugs but have not received any replies. This is a > commercial product and we have found this bug late in the development cycle > hence we are desperate to get it fixed. We are prepared to offer a reward/pay > for consultation for solving this issue. > > Regards Dave > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message