Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 15:42:11 -0500 (EST) From: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org> To: daniel@flipse.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Panics with 5-stable - vinum? raid5? Message-ID: <20050223153153.H11501@familysquires.net> In-Reply-To: <20050222164547.M22241@flipse.org> References: <20050216102337.M31650@flipse.org> <421B1D15.9090507@Spoor.NU> <20050222164547.M22241@flipse.org>
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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
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