Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:54:47 -0600 From: Jason Godfrey <godfrey@sol.aptsolutions.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Disk activity leading to hangs Message-ID: <20021102235447.D35685@sol.aptsolutions.com>
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Hello. I am experiencing a hang on two machines that I think may be related. I am hoping someone on the list may know a solution. Basically under heavy disk load (buildworld, large package install, nightly script run) the system will hang hard. The two systems have very little in common, one is a P2 400 running FreeBSD-Stable from Oct 2, the other (a new machine) is a AMD 1600+ running FreeBSD 4.5-Release. The faster machine seems to hit the hange much more regularly. The only thing in common between the two machines I can think of is that they both have Maxtor IDE drives on a Ultra-ATA channel. (On the P2 400 I've been running in PIO mode, as that _seems_ to reduce the frequency of the hangs. On the AMD it seems to make no difference.) Does anyone have an idea? It's been an annoyance on my P2, but it is making the AMD (a freinds computer I am helping setup) almost unusable.) Thanks - Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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