From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 6 15:38:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA04289 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 15:38:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indigo.ie (root@ts01-62.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA04259; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 15:38:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (from nsmart@localhost) by indigo.ie (8.8.8/8.8.7) id XAA01618; Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:10:27 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) From: Niall Smart Message-Id: <199807062210.XAA01618@indigo.ie> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 23:10:25 +0000 In-Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie "Re: Load related wd problem" (Jul 6, 10:13pm) Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: rotel@indigo.ie, Tony Holmes , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Load related wd problem Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Jul 6, 10:13pm, rotel@indigo.ie wrote: } Subject: Re: Load related wd problem > > > > 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. > > 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. Damnit, I've searched GNATS, freebsd-bugs and freebsd-hackers and reviewed the changelog for wd.c and I can't find it. Does anyone else remember this? Sorry for the amount of cross-posting, but if the original patch was correct then its important. 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-hackers" in the body of the message