Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 22:44:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "R.D. Thrush" <rd@thrush.com> To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scsi-diffs.960815.gz uploaded Message-ID: <199608190244.WAA10451@tarpit.thrush.com> In-Reply-To: gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org's message of 18 Aug 96 16:36:01 GMT References: Your message of "Sun, 18 Aug 1996 10:54:52 EDT." <199608181454.KAA25570@tarpit.thrush.com> <199608181636.JAA01036@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>>>>> "gibbs" == Justin T Gibbs <gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org> writes: >> I tried the diffs and had a system lockup. The following 2 messages >> were on the console: >> >> ahc0: WARNING no command for scb2 (cmdcmplt) >> QOUTCNT == 0 >> ahc0: WARNING no command for scb19 (cmdcmplt) >> QOUTCNT == 0 gibbs> You're using SCB_PAGING right? Try turning it off and see if it happens gibbs> again. I think there is a bug in the SCB_PAGING code and since the new gibbs> code is faster, it probably exacerbated the problem. You should also gibbs> trim down your config file. All of those unattached devices are just gibbs> useless kernel bloat. Thanks, I removed AHC_SCBPAGING_ENABLE from the kernel config and have now processed several GBs of news without the forementioned problem. I think this lends credence to your suspicion of a bug in the SCB_PAGING code... As mentioned in a separate email, the diffs seem to have resulted in lossage of the "sps tps msps" stats as shown by iostat as well vmstat disk stats. comet3:home/rd 516>iostat 2 tty sd0 sd1 sd2 sd3 cpu tin tout sps tps msps sps tps msps sps tps msps sps tps msps us ni sy in id 0 737 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 4 2 9 2 82 0 294 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0.0 1 0 2 0 97 Thanks again for the prompt reply to the previous report.
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