From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jan 31 16:00:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00846 for current-outgoing; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 16:00:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.scsn.net (scsn.net [206.25.246.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00841 for ; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 16:00:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmaddox@scsn.net) Received: from rhiannon.scsn.net ([209.12.57.30]) by mail.scsn.net (Post.Office MTA v3.1.2 release (PO205-101c) ID# 0-41950U6000L1100S0) with ESMTP id AAA167; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:57:34 -0500 Received: (from root@localhost) by rhiannon.scsn.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id SAA00671; Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:59:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from root) Message-ID: <19980131185929.04618@scsn.net> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:59:29 -0500 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: Mike Smith Cc: Peter Mutsaers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current locks my machine frequently Reply-To: dmaddox@scsn.net Mail-Followup-To: Mike Smith , Peter Mutsaers , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <19980131184543.57933@scsn.net> <199801312344.KAA00674@word.smith.net.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199801312344.KAA00674@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 10:14:05AM +1030 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe current" On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 10:14:05AM +1030, Mike Smith wrote: > > No, you're definitely not the only one :-( > > > > John Dyson made some changes last night that I had hoped would finally > > fix the problem, but I just had the machine lock up again a few minutes > > ago. It always seems to occur when X is running (usually when Netscape > > starts to swap heavily). > > Odd; I'm running -current on a very memory-short laptop, under X, using > netscape/emacs/exmh, and it thrashes pretty solidly but certainly > hasn't fallen over yet. > > I *have* noticed these odd pauses where all filesystem activity seems > to block for a few seconds (maybe 10 or so). It's not disk spin-up > either. This includes procfs activity, so I can't use ps to find out > what's going on. Is your laptop a P5 machine? I know that John has expressed the opinion that this problem seems to be specific to P5s. Just so we can all compare, and maybe find something common to machines that are locking up, here is my dmesg o/p: Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jan 31 15:46:41 EST 1998 root@rhiannon.scsn.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/RHIANNON CPU: Pentium (166.19-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping=12 Features=0x1bf real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) avail memory = 30486528 (29772K bytes) Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: rev 0x01 on pci0.0.0 chip1: rev 0x00 on pci0.7.0 ide_pci0: rev 0x00 on pci0.7.1 ahc0: rev 0x00 int a irq 10 on pci0.10.0 ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs scbus0 at ahc0 bus 0 ahc0: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device sd0 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 sd0: type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd0: Direct-Access 2040MB (4178874 512 byte sectors) sd0: with 2708 cyls, 19 heads, and an average 81 sectors/track ahc0: target 1 Tagged Queuing Device sd1 at scbus0 target 1 lun 0 sd1: type 0 fixed SCSI 2 sd1: Direct-Access 507MB (1039329 512 byte sectors) sd1: with 2380 cyls, 6 heads, and an average 72 sectors/track cd0 at scbus0 target 2 lun 0 cd0: type 5 removable SCSI 2 cd0: CD-ROM cd present [19371 x 2048 byte records] vga0: rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.12.0 Probing for PnP devices: CSN 1 Vendor ID: CTL009e [0x9e008c0e] Serial 0x09f665ec Probing for devices on the ISA bus: sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0> lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa lpt0: Interrupt-driven port lp0: TCP/IP capable interface sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa sio0: type 16550A sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa sio1: type 16550A sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 12 flags 0x20000 on isa sio2: type ST16650A sio3 at 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 9 on isa sio3: type 16550A pca0 on motherboard pca0: PC speaker audio driver wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff on isa wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): , DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-32 wd0: 1277MB (2615760 sectors), 2595 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in npx0 on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa snd0: sbxvi0 at ? drq 5 on isa snd0: sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa snd0: opl0 at 0x388 on isa snd0: awe0 at 0x620 on isa awe0: joy0 at 0x201 on isa joy0: joystick Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround ccd0-3: Concatenated disk drivers