Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 19:57:50 +0000 From: Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net> To: Brady Montz <bradym@mail.hydrologue.com> Cc: FreeBSD-Stable@mail.hydrologue.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver Message-ID: <20011204195750.B3320@twincat.vladsempire.net> In-Reply-To: <200112050033.fB50X6G12476@mail.hydrologue.com>; from bradym@mail.hydrologue.com on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:33:06PM -0800 References: <200112050033.fB50X6G12476@mail.hydrologue.com>
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 04:33:06PM -0800, Brady Montz wrote: > Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se> writes: > > > On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 02:45:18AM -0500, Chris BeHanna wrote: > > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Morsal Roudbay wrote: > > > > > > > Yes.. the PSU is a 300W unit made by AOpen... the server works > > > > flawless as long as I dont use the IDE drives too heavily. It > > > > only crashes when I do heavy IO on the IDE drives... for > > > > isntance ports (/usr/ports is on a IDE drive) as I mentioned > > > > earlier. > > > > > > Upgrade your power supply. Under heavy loads, some power supplies > > > cannot maintain the correct voltage for the CPU. 300W is marginal for > > > many modern systems. > > > > > > Antec is a very good brand. A 400W unit will set you back about > > > $100 US, but could save you lots of headaches. > > > > I have now verified that it isnt my powersupply. It is perfectly healthy so > > it must be the ATA driver that crashes the computer. > > I've been recently noticing the same thing with my machine. I don't > have the specs handy since I'm at work, but I am using IDE drives. > The trouble started last week, using a 4.4-STABLE kernel built on Nov 3. > I reinstalled world yesterday from the latest 4.4-STABLE, > and it hasn't gotten better. > > For me, it only happens during heavy disk access, such as when backing > up my hard drive to a huge tar file, or when doing build or clean. My > machine will either lock up or reboot. I haven't seen any messages in > any of my log files. The MTBF under such load (like portupgrade mozilla) seems > to be about an hour or so. > > Other data poiints: I ran memtest86 overnight, and it didn't find any > memory errors, and tripwire hasn't noticed any filesystem corruption. > > -- > Brady Montz > bradym@balestra.org Bad disks will cause reboots, and leave no messages in log files or to console. I've got a pair of seagate 9gig scsi drives that will reboot any system they are in, and not cause a single error, but only if they are heavily accessed. This took me forever and a day to discover, swapping one component at a time, and the disks were the last thing I thought would be the problem. Josh To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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