From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 23 20:42:14 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 BFB1516A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:42:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rader.servnow.com (rader.servnow.com [69.93.129.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7233243D31 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:42:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mikes@siralan.org) Received: from 12-210-221-89.client.insightbb.com ([12.210.221.89] helo=familysquires.net) by rader.servnow.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1D43Ki-0005Sj-48; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:42:08 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:42:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael L. Squires" X-X-Sender: mikes@familysquires.net To: daniel@flipse.org In-Reply-To: <20050222164547.M22241@flipse.org> Message-ID: <20050223153153.H11501@familysquires.net> References: <20050216102337.M31650@flipse.org> <421B1D15.9090507@Spoor.NU> <20050222164547.M22241@flipse.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - rader.servnow.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - siralan.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panics with 5-stable - vinum? raid5? 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: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 20:42:14 -0000 On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 daniel@flipse.org wrote: > Hi there, > > I have carried out extensive hardware tests and most of the hardware > (including most of the memory, the cpu and main board) have already been > replaced but this makes no difference to stability. I also believe this issue > was already there when running 4-STABLE. I have tried out the new geom feature > and gvinum but crashes where more frequent and panic dumps were specifically > mentioning vinum, so I turned back to non-geom vinum (which also has a > significantly higher performance). I tried 5.3-STABLE with vinum and gvinum and had a number of crashes with a Supermicro P4DC6 dual 1.8GHZ Xeon/512MB, RAID 1 boot device using the Adaptec 2005S + onboard SCSI, Compaq OEM Adaptec 39160 (flashed to Adaptec v 2.57 BIOS), 8 Seagate 43GB drives in a RAID 5 array. I dropped back to 4.11-STABLE, same hardware, no crashes. I had two processes copying 150GB from an NFS-mounted volume to the RAID 5 array for several days. On the other hand I'm running 5.3-STABLE on a Toshiba 8100 notebook and dual PIII/Supermicro P6DGH which have been rock solid. I personally would not use the 8139 Ethernet cards in a server (see "man rl" or read the code, the author of the driver obviously thinks the 8139 chipset is a horrible kludge. I personally use only Intel Pro100 and variants (the P4DC6 has one built in). (I can't tell you if the problems I had were hardware (I did change memory at one point, but that didn't solve the problem), some configuration mistake I made, or bugs triggered by my hardware version (I do have HTT turned off). Mike Squires