From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 15 18:32:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE24D16A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:32:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from spider.deepcore.dk (cpe.atm2-0-53484.0x50a6c9a6.abnxx9.customer.tele.dk [80.166.201.166]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA34C43D45 for ; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:32:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Received: from [194.192.25.143] (laptop.deepcore.dk [194.192.25.143]) by spider.deepcore.dk (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i7FIWHXV021515; Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:32:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos@DeepCore.dk) Message-ID: <411FAC1F.6060002@DeepCore.dk> Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 20:31:59 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.7.2 (X11/20040802) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Eriksson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-mail-scanned: by DeepCore Virus & Spam killer v1.4 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org cc: 'Nate Lawson' Subject: Re: More ATA interrupt(?) oddities X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 18:32:27 -0000 Daniel Eriksson wrote: > I wrote: >=20 >=20 >>Sometime during the last 3 weeks, something has changed in=20 >>the kernel that makes one of my servers barf when hit with >>lots of I/O on multiple filesystems (like when starting >>"fsck" on all the filesystems). This used to work in the >>past, but I have unfortunately not run this stress-test in >>the last 3 weeks despite upgrading the kernel multiple times >=20 >=20 > I would like to apologize for shouting "fire" when there is, in fact, > nothing burning. After much head-scratching, some emails with S=F6ren a= nd Nate > and trying out a few old kernels without any success, I decided to repl= ace > the PSU powering the discs that were causing the timeout messages menti= oned > in my original email. That fixed the problem. I suspect that the combin= ation > of rather unusual temperatures in Sweden over the last 10 days, and ver= y > poor ventilation in the room where the server sits, contributed to the > "half-death" of the PSU. >=20 > I should have known better than to suspect FreeBSD given the symptoms (= which > I've actually seen once before when I think about it), and I would like= to > apologize for any time wasted trying to help me. There is no need to apologise, we got this solved, and got a bunch of=20 real problems fixed in the process, all in all a very positive end=20 result if you ask me :) Dont ever hesitate to shout again if you encounter ATA problems... -S=F8ren