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Date:      Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:28:18 -0500
From:      Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@altavista.net>
Cc:        Frank Nobis <fn@radio-do.de>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Dangerously looking glitch (4.0-STABLE) 
Message-ID:  <20000405222818.ADBDF173@woodstock.monkey.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:27:17 %2B0300." <38EB3F35.EF0E287A@altavista.net> 

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In message <38EB3F35.EF0E287A@altavista.net>, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
} Frank Nobis wrote:
} 
} > On Wed, Apr 05, 2000 at 07:13:29AM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote:
} > >
} > > up clean.  I think you have a hardware problem somewhere :(
} >
} > That is very likely a hardwre problem. I have a nfs server under 3.4-S
} > here running, It was easy to crash the system with much I/O over nfs
} > on a 100M Ethernet connection. (I did a dump and the machine paniced)
} >
} > The same over a slower 10M ethernet, but it took longer to crash.
} >
} > Now I replaced a very old adaptec 1542cf with a 2940U. I did the same
} > stress test, but got no more panics. Even a load of 80% interrupts
} > didn't kill the machine.
} >
} > Maybe you have a similar problem.
} 
} It is unlikely, because I've never seen this problem previously when 3.[01234
} ]
} was installed on this hardware.

Hardware does fail over time; just because it performed OK in the past
doesn't mean that something hasn't gone bad since.  I suppose it could
be a problem with one of the drivers for your particular setup; is
it feasable for you to try booting an older version (even from floppy)
of FreeBSD and try the test again?

-- 
   Jon Hamilton  
   hamilton@pobox.com



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