Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 16:30:46 -0800 (PST) From: Brady Montz <bradym@mail.hydrologue.com> To: FreeBSD-Stable@mail.hydrologue.com, <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver Message-ID: <200112050030.fB50UkK12432@mail.hydrologue.com>
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Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se> writes: > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:45:18AM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Morsal Roudbay wrote: > > > > > Yes.. the PSU is a 300W unit made by AOpen... the server works > > > flawless as long as I dont use the IDE drives too heavily. It > > > only crashes when I do heavy IO on the IDE drives... for > > > isntance ports (/usr/ports is on a IDE drive) as I mentioned > > > earlier. > > > > Upgrade your power supply. Under heavy loads, some power supplies > > cannot maintain the correct voltage for the CPU. 300W is marginal for > > many modern systems. > > > > Antec is a very good brand. A 400W unit will set you back about > > $100 US, but could save you lots of headaches. > > I have now verified that it isnt my powersupply. It is perfectly healthy so > it must be the ATA driver that crashes the computer. I've been recently noticing the same thing with my machine. I don't have the specs handy since I'm at work, but I am using IDE drives. The trouble started last week, using a 4.4-STABLE kernel built on Nov 3. I reinstalled world yesterday from the latest 4.4-STABLE, and it hasn't gotten better. For me, it only happens during heavy disk access, such as when backing up my hard drive to a huge tar file, or when doing build or clean. My machine will either lock up or reboot. I haven't seen any messages in any of my log files. The MTBF under such load (like portupgrade mozilla) seems to be about an hour or so. Other data poiints: I ran memtest86 overnight, and it didn't find any memory errors, and tripwire hasn't noticed any filesystem corruption. -- Brady Montz bradym@balestra.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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