From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 24 9:47: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net [207.217.121.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D11737B422 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 09:47:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from veager.siteplus.net (user-38lc8e8.dialup.mindspring.com [209.86.33.200]) by harrier.prod.itd.earthlink.net (8.9.3-EL_1_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA12541; Sun, 24 Sep 2000 09:46:58 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 12:46:57 -0400 (EDT) From: Jim Weeks To: Noor Dawod Cc: Roman Shterenzon , FreeBSD-STABLE Mailing List Subject: RE: Profiling timer expired on 4.1-R In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sorry Roman, that should have been addressed to Noor :\ -- Jim Weeks On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Jim Weeks wrote: > > On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Noor Dawod wrote: > > > Hello Roman and all. > > > > I have not filled a PR yet. > > > > Our server doesn't have a Qlogic. The machine is a P-II 350Mhz equ. with 256MB RAM. Machine has an AHA-2940 SCSI card, and a SCSI > > Seagate Baracuda disk. > > > > The problem again is: mysqldump dies with 'Profiling timer expired' while dumping large databases. > > > > How can we fix this problem? > > Roman, > > I have just gone through MEGA headaches with this same thing on these same > drives. I tried everything that anyone suggested to solve the problem. I > had always discounted the suggestion that they were running too hot > because I thought I had sufficient ventilation. NOT SO!! > > When I moved the drives to the upper 5.25 bays and put a Zerus twin turbo > exhaust fan, which happens to fit in a 5.25 bay, and positioned another > fan in the rear of the case blowing directly at the drives. Problem > solved ;-) > > I can not stress enough that Seagate drives need adequate cooling. > > Hope this helps, > > Jim > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message