From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 23 00:39:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD20C16A401 for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:39:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from janm@transactionware.com) Received: from mail.transactionware.com (mail.transactionware.com [203.14.245.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2BB0013C46A for ; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:39:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from janm@transactionware.com) Received: (qmail 34048 invoked from network); 23 Mar 2007 00:13:07 -0000 Received: from midgard.transactionware.com (192.168.1.55) by dm.transactionware.com with SMTP; 23 Mar 2007 00:13:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 55734 invoked by uid 907); 23 Mar 2007 00:12:45 -0000 Received: from midgard.transactionware.com (HELO jmlaptop) (192.168.1.55) by midgard.transactionware.com (qpsmtpd/0.32) with ESMTP; Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:12:45 +1100 From: "Jan Mikkelsen" To: "'Phillip Neumann'" , "'FreeBSD Stable'" Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:12:45 +1100 Message-ID: <000701c76cdf$fbd203a0$0204a8c0@jmlaptop> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6822 Importance: Normal Thread-Index: AcdsksBD+beA5uIzTYiEJv5bmyk1BQATKYkg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 In-Reply-To: <460292F9.3050802@gmail.com> Cc: Subject: RE: Amd64 Unstable Areca X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:39:28 -0000 Hi, Phillip Neumann wrote: > My amd64 box is not very stable. > In its hardware list, you can see there is an areca 1210 card, wich > suffer the errata of 6.2-release (high load crash) > > Last week or so, i saw a commit where the areca bugs were fixed, so i > updated the system. > > I can still see the mashine crashing under load How heavy is the load? I can't make 6-STABLE crash, but I could make 6.2-RELEASE crash. My guess is that you have filesystem corruption introduced with the earlier driver which is now causing problems even though the driver now works. Have you done an fsck in single user mode, not a background fsck? > sometimes (under load) i see this message: > Interrupt storm detected on "swi2:"; throttling interrupt source I see this too. It seems to be benign. Regards, Jan Mikkelsen