From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 11 19:30:44 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (mail2.rdc3.on.home.com [24.2.9.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46B0937B479 for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:30:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from cr522585a ([24.42.26.84]) by mail2.rdc3.on.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with SMTP id <20001112033041.SZUV26241.mail2.rdc3.on.home.com@cr522585a> for ; Sat, 11 Nov 2000 19:30:41 -0800 Message-ID: <000701c04c58$f2b11b20$feb4fea9@slnt1.on.wave.home.com> From: "Kyle McMartin" To: Subject: kernel panic when drive i/o is high Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 22:30:47 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I have recently been struck with these problems with FreeBSD. When building world/installing world, or X, or some other large program, my kernel panic's and I get a system reset with the description, Giving up on 1 buffers. The disk is an ATA66 WDC 15 GB drive, the IDE cabling is ATA66 compliant, and I have run the disk check utility that came with the drive, and wrote zero's to the drive, and have found no problems with the disk. I am at a loss as to how this could be happening. This is all using the GENERIC kernel, if the build/install goes well, I can generally get a -STABLE system going and not produce these errors at all. I believe this is problem is caused by SOFTUPDATES, which I disabled in my kernel setup after having this problem a few times. I am loosing my mind with this, as it is extremely irritating and forces me to use Windows for longer than I would like. As far as I can recall, when I did run Linux I never had this problem. Any responses or suggestions would be happily received. Please email them to this account, as I am not subscribed to the mailing lists at this time. Thank you, Kyle McMartin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message