Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:09:18 +0200 From: Ireneusz Pluta <ipluta@wp.pl> To: Antony Mawer <lists@mawer.org> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System hangs during heavy sequential write to mfi device Message-ID: <4C2B17CE.5060209@wp.pl> In-Reply-To: <AANLkTilKthSDRM4cee11rBIbT8MQcWogSBkeoiWdrMsi@mail.gmail.com> References: <4C2499B5.3030404@wp.pl> <201006281326.08896.jhb@freebsd.org> <4C28E287.5010103@wp.pl> <201006281409.23546.jhb@freebsd.org> <AANLkTilKthSDRM4cee11rBIbT8MQcWogSBkeoiWdrMsi@mail.gmail.com>
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Antony Mawer pisze: > On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 4:09 AM, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> On Monday 28 June 2010 1:57:27 pm Ireneusz Pluta wrote: >> >>> John Baldwin pisze: >>> >>>> On Monday 28 June 2010 12:00:06 pm Ireneusz Pluta wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> John Baldwin pisze: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Friday 25 June 2010 4:59:57 pm Ireneusz Pluta wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> John Baldwin pisze: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Hmmm. You might have a hardware issue. OTOH, you can try seeing if >>>>>>>> >> you >> >>>> have >>>> >>>> >>>>>>>> a BIOS option to disable PCIE error logging. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> is it one of them?: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Assert NMI on SERR >>>>>>> Assert NMI on PERR >>>>>>> >>>>>>> (pdf page 109 of: -> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >> http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/s5520hc/sb/e39529013_s5520hc_s5500hcv_s5520hct_tps_r1_9.pdf) >> >>>>>>> >>>>>> Well, that will turn off the NMIs. Not sure if it will affect the event >>>>>> logging, but it is worth a shot. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> Per BIOS setup documentation: >>>>> >>>>> On SERR, generate an NMI and log an error. >>>>> Note: [Enabled] must be selected for the Assert NMI >>>>> on PERR setup option to be visible. >>>>> >>>>> and: >>>>> >>>>> On PERR, generate an NMI and log an error. >>>>> Note: This option is only active if the Assert NMI on >>>>> SERR option is [Enabled] selected. >>>>> >>>>> However, disabling them did not change anything. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Is it still logging errors and sending NMIs with them disabled? >>>> >>>> >>> with the options I mentioned disabled. They do not have to be the only >>> sources of NMIs, do they? >>> >> Well, they should be the sources of the log messages you found in your system >> event log. There is a good chance that you have some broken hardware >> somewhere, I'm not sure how easy it is for you to debug that via swapping out >> components, but the RAID controller is the first thing I would try. >> > > You might want to try a BIOS update to see if it resolves these > problems ... I seem to remember some mention of these sorts of errors > in the change log of one of the recent Intel server board BIOSes. > Yeah, I tried, and the problem dissappeared. I really could do that initially but none of the entries found in the BIOS changelog from Intel seemed to address my particular issue.home | help
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