From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 15:15:16 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 4BC2516A4D0 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 15:15:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [82.68.196.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B2543DA5 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 15:15:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46ED3222403; Tue, 17 May 2005 16:15:08 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.helenmarks.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.helenmarks.co.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 83907-06; Tue, 17 May 2005 16:15:05 +0100 (BST) Received: from egg.helenmarks.co.uk (egg.helenmarks.co.uk [192.168.15.3]) by mail.helenmarks.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90B5C222402; Tue, 17 May 2005 16:15:05 +0100 (BST) From: Dominic Marks Organization: GoodforBusiness.co.uk To: Brent Casavant , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 16:16:08 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <20050517062002.465BE16A4E3@hub.freebsd.org> <20050517095122.W2946@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <20050517095122.W2946@chenjesu.americas.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200505171616.09437.dom@goodforbusiness.co.uk> X-Virus-Scanned: By ClamAV 0.80 Subject: Re: 5.4-RC2 freezing - ATA related? 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: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:15:16 -0000 On Tuesday 17 May 2005 15:58, Brent Casavant wrote: > > You can add a fourth. Ever since 5.1 (my first 5.x install) I have > experienced the same problem, again with an Intel ICH5 ATA controller. > The symptoms are exactly the same -- the hang is normally triggered > during the periodic runs just after 3AM. The hang does occur at other > times as well, but with nowhere near the same consistency. I've got four machines with ICH5/6 chips in, no stability problems whatsoever, and thats been the case since I installed them, around 5.2.1. Perhaps it is something to do with your workload, or another piece of hardware in the system. The machines do a lot of disc i/o so during their working days. > The only solution I found at that time was reverting to 4.10, though > that is obviously suboptimal. I could be persuaded to reinstall 5.x > on the machine if I'd be sure to get someone to look into this. > > Thanks, > Brent Casavant HTH, -- Dominic GoodforBusiness.co.uk I.T. Services for SMEs in the UK.