From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 10 18:53:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A45116A4CE for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:53:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (skipjack.no-such-agency.net [64.142.114.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B557B43D2F for ; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:53:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4857034DA11; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.120] (blackhole.no-such-agency.net [64.142.103.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACA4C34DA0F; Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:53:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4259762C.2040700@cloudview.com> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 11:53:32 -0700 From: John Pettitt User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ash References: <4258324D.8070405@speakeasy.net> <20050409220331.GF89047@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> <42592FBD.1070903@speakeasy.net> In-Reply-To: <42592FBD.1070903@speakeasy.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.1 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: by skipjack cc: Peter Jeremy cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.4-RC1 Freezing, but pingable (may be related to gvinum) X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:53:34 -0000 Ash wrote: > > > I was hoping that someone on the list may have run into a similar > issue with 5_4_0 so that I could at least figure out how to reproduce > the problem rather than simply waiting for the machine to hang again. > Patience is not my greatest virtue :) > I'm seeing a similar symptom but only with gstripe and only on usb disks (the same drives on Firewire work fine) - I can reproduce it (all be it slowly) by dumping a big file system and restoring it to a gstripe pair of usb drives - it will will after up to 2 hours. Unfortunately the machine is a semi-production server so I have to time my test window - I have built a DDB/KDB kernel for it and sometime this week I'll try and get a trace. John P.S. there is a bug report for this - i386/79169 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/79169