From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Oct 11 9: 2:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.shells.co.uk (phoenix.shells.co.uk [217.33.11.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5266737B403 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 09:02:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by phoenix.shells.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F2F39C8 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:01:51 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 17:01:51 +0100 (BST) From: Darkcyde X-Sender: jk@phoenix.shells.co.uk To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.4 weirdness, dirprefs/RAID problem? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Just to follow on from my earlier post. The box dies whilst running a 4.4-RELEASE kernel, whereas it does not when running 4.3-RELEASE-p20 It's been suggested to me that as dirprefs arrived on the RELENG_4 branch subsequent to -RELEASE, the code shouldn't be present on my system and hence it's logical to rule that out as a cause. I'm still wondering about this ffs angle though. Below is a top snippet highlighting the state strangeness.. last pid: 321; load averages: 0.08, 0.30, 0.24 up 0+00:43:03 16:50:19 31 processes: 1 running, 30 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 100% idle Mem: 172M Active, 778M Inact, 232M Wired, 8K Cache, 163M Buf, 325M Free Swap: 1024M Total, 1024M Free PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND 298 root -20 0 156M 156M FFS no 4:56 0.00% 0.00% swish-e [...] 261 nobody -18 0 7092K 5332K ffsvgt 0:01 0.00% 0.00% httpd 148 root -18 0 968K 716K ffsvgt 0:00 0.00% 0.00% cron The other processes look to be in pretty normal states, however the machine hangs and is unresponsive to further commands or connections, though top actually carries on updating so I guess it's not entirely dead in the water. In the meantime I'm running with the 4.3-REL kernel, but I fear that perhaps the same thing will come and bite me on the ass when time comes to upgrade so if anyone has any pearls of wisdom to share, fire away. dmesg follows.. Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #0: Tue Oct 9 20:33:09 BST 2001 jk@red.pro-net.co.uk:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/RED Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) Processor (1000.04-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x642 Stepping = 2 Features=0x183f9ff AMD Features=0xc0440000<,AMIE,DSP,3DNow!> real memory = 1610547200 (1572800K bytes) avail memory = 1564561408 (1527892K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc02de000. Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled Using $PIR table, 9 entries at 0xc00fddd0 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib2: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib2 isab0: at device 7.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xc000-0xc00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: at 7.2 irq 5 pci0: at 7.3 irq 5 dc0: <82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX> port 0xcc00-0xccff mem 0xd6000000-0xd60000ff irq 12 at device 13.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:64:fc:b4 miibus0: on dc0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto pci0: at 17.0 atapci1: port 0xe000-0xe0ff,0xdc00-0xdc03,0xd800-0xd807,0xd400-0xd403,0xd000-0xd007 irq 11 at device 19.0 on pci0 ata2: at 0xd000 on atapci1 ata3: at 0xd800 on atapci1 pcib1: on motherboard pci2: on pcib1 orm0: