From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 4 10:14:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B9737B401 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:14:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB76D43E42 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 10:14:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (dialup-2.aaa.net.au [203.14.230.67]) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA4IECp23551; Tue, 5 Nov 2002 05:14:12 +1100 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (tenring.andymac.org [203.9.107.238]) by bullseye.apana.org.au (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id gA49lbh00352; Mon, 4 Nov 2002 20:47:37 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 19:47:11 +1000 (est) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: Jason Godfrey Cc: Jeff Jirsa , Subject: Re: Disk activity leading to hangs In-Reply-To: <20021103115009.C43728@sol.aptsolutions.com> Message-ID: X-X-Sender: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Jason Godfrey wrote: > After a bit of experimentation it seems that the hang (at least on the AMD) > occurs under write activity. (A yes > /tmp/foo hangs it.) It seems to hold up > under read loads. I've seen references to power supply problems causing similar symptoms (crashes under heavy disk I/O). -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@pcug.org.au | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message