From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jul 2 19:34:40 2002 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 4AAAB37B400 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:34:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wattres.Watt.COM (dsl-sj-66-219-76-254.broadviewnet.net [66.219.76.254]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1ECF43E3D for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:34:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve@Watt.COM) Received: (from steve@localhost) by wattres.Watt.COM (8.12.4/8.12.4) id g632YRFf015291; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:34:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve) Message-Id: <200207030234.g632YRFf015291@wattres.Watt.COM> X-Newsgroups: local.freebsd-stable In-Reply-To: <200206272345.g5RNjNDS079083@wattres.Watt.COM> Organization: Watt Consultants, San Jose, CA, USA From: steve@Watt.COM (Steve Watt) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 19:34:27 -0700 X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(5) 10/07/98) To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: ATA tags again (was Re: dirbad panic "mangled entry" in 4.6-S from yesterday) Cc: sos@freebsd.dk Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <200206272345.g5RNjNDS079083@wattres.Watt.COM> I wrote: >Greetings! > >I came back up to stable yesterday, after sitting at 4.6-RC2 for a while. >Things were working fine (except for ATA tagging on my DTLA drives) before >I upgraded. I reenabled tagging, and things seemed OK. > >Last night, during the daily run, it panic()ed. And, in fact, did so the next night as well, with a noticably different syndrome that still implicated the disk system. Turning off hw.ata.tags makes the system live through the night again. Is it just time to give up on tagged ATA? I don't have a strong feeling for how much of a performance win it is. > - - - 8< - - - >panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir > >syncing disks... ad0: WRITE command timeout tag=18 serv=0 - resetting >ad0: invalidating queued requests >ata0: resetting devices .. ad0: invalidating queued requests >done >143 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 >giving up on 2 buffers >Uptime: 11h27m33s > > - - - >8 - - - -- Steve Watt KD6GGD PP-ASEL-IA ICBM: 121W 56' 57.8" / 37N 20' 14.9" Internet: steve @ Watt.COM Whois: SW32 Free time? There's no such thing. It just comes in varying prices... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message