From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 20 2:26: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 970BD37B401 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:26:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from outel.org (outel.org [168.150.177.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A12243E75 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:26:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from qumqats@outel.org) Received: from localhost (winxp [192.168.1.20]) by outel.org (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAKAQ0uE055011 for ; Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:26:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from qumqats@outel.org) Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:25:49 -0800 From: "Joel M. Baldwin" To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running Message-ID: <167820673.1037759149@[192.168.1.20]> In-Reply-To: <200211200110.58852.thierry@herbelot.com> References: <200211200110.58852.thierry@herbelot.com> X-Mailer: Mulberry/3.0.0 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I haven't had any Hard Locks since I upgraded the BIOS on my BP6 from LP to RU and cvsup/buildworld/installworld again. At the moment I'm thinking that my system is stable again, but won't feel comfortable with that until I do some more stress testing. I've gotten a panic, but I think its unrelated. ( that's made this harder, multiple issues causing problems ) So if people are still having their BP6 do Hard Locks I would suggest they make sure they're running the RU version of the BIOS and the latest version of -current. Thanks for the tip however. If I continue to have Hard Locks I'll try slowing down the IDE drives on the system. --On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:10 AM +0100 Thierry Herbelot=20 wrote: > Le Tuesday 19 November 2002 22:35, Nate Lawson a =E9crit : >> I have a couple BP6's running -stable and was having hard lock >> problems under heavy IO until I dropped back to ATA33 on the drives >> (I moved them to the onboard Intel controller instead of the >> HPT366). sos@ informed me that the HPT366 has a buggy DMA >> controller and that ATA66 on them wouldn't work. After moving to >> ATA33 in early 2001, I haven't had any more hard locks. This was >> under -stable, but you might want to check your ATA drive setup >> before proceeding. > > Hello, > > I also had a lockup this morning, with both /usr/src and /usr/obj on > the local dma33 IDE disk, hooked on the BX ata canal (instead of the > HPT366). > > the BP6 is on a serial console, but I still have to look how to get > back to DDB when it is frozen (I run a plain vanilla GENERIC+SMP, so > I may have to add other specific options - later) > > TfH > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message