From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 4 10:28:41 2000 From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 4 10:28:39 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00EA837B401 for ; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 10:28:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell-1.enteract.com (presence@shell-1.enteract.com [207.229.143.40]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id MAA94077; Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:28:36 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from presence@churchofinformationwarfare.org) Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2000 12:28:36 -0600 (CST) From: Reverend K Kanno X-Sender: presence@shell-1.enteract.com To: Vivek Khera Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: scary looking bt0 kernel messages In-Reply-To: <14891.54784.516820.902042@onceler.kciLink.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I found these in my daily email message for one of my servers: > > > bt0: Encountered busy mailbox with 191 out of 192 commands active!!! > > bt0: btdone - Attempt to free non-active BCCB 0xcb36e740 > > (da0:bt0:0:0:0): CCB 0xcb36db40 - timed out > > bt0: btdone - Attempt to free non-active BCCB 0xcb36d3c0 > > (da0:bt0:0:0:0): CCB 0xcb36db40 - timed out > > bt0: No longer in timeout > > Where can I find out more about the implications of these messages? > Ie, is some tuning required or is something about to die? > > I'm about to upgrade the box to 4.2-STABLE built from cvsup of last > Thursday, in case it is a driver issue. I had this happen as well on a Dell 2450 with a Mylex 958 controller. I croned a sync every minute and it went away. Back on a tyan motherboard this problem never showed up. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message