From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 10 13:03:46 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 964D416A4CE for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:03:46 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.199]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A9A043D67 for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:03:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 68so560660wri for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:03:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=JSbg/sszykoN+WjWF3jxFSk7CH7ZawxprEGp/5OTY6pi6LKgusAVGJDBk/Vjx/s6y4usszO0+fr+UslmH7j1vsQTYKsD2BodYwWznfEnAE246BLT+O7qQa8TqueNVZbBp7HKeeR4yRiA4I6MwU3QRimAXBamLvEfALw8DKRuoUY= Received: by 10.54.32.72 with SMTP id f72mr1603565wrf; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:03:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.38.3 with HTTP; Thu, 10 Mar 2005 05:03:43 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <720051dc0503100503135ffaee@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:03:43 +0000 From: James Seward To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20050307212825.GB34940@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1110213509.593.18.camel@p4-3200.local> <20050307171009.GA37856@e-Gitt.NET> <20050307171244.GO22873@hub.freebsd.org> <20050307210539.GJ90757@numachi.com> <20050307212825.GB34940@hub.freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: James Seward List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:03:46 -0000 I'm encountering a similar problem where my desktop system will freeze up and I'm wondering if something to do with the disks is the problem. I have two Maxtor Diamondmax 160 SATA drives on the same SATA PCI card, one of which is the home to FreeBSD 5.3 and the other is NTFS from my Windows XP install (which I'm migrating away from, hooray). The system hasn't frozen while I've been sat at it, only while it's been left to itself. Sometimes it's doing stuff (once was extracting Firefox for a portupgrade), sometimes it's not (being left overnight doing nothing in particular). Either way it freezes and has to be reset. While rebooting, it often complains about /usr to the extent that it wants me to manually fsck it before the boot will complete. It's always /usr. What makes the disk the suspect is log messages saying there's a timeout on the disk and it has two more retries, from which the machine usually continues. Unfortunately because of the freezing I can't see if that's happening when it dies. I would post some actual log messages but I had to leave it dead this morning due to lack of time to bring it up :) Tonight I'll check it's not overheating but I don't think that's the case - this machine doesn't usually run hot.