Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:26:29 -0600 From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-( Message-ID: <49957505.7090405@palisadesys.com> In-Reply-To: <49946769.1040009@palisadesys.com> References: <E1LL6dg-0007CN-DI@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <49676406.9050902@palisadesys.com> <49946769.1040009@palisadesys.com>
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Guy Helmer wrote: > FWIW, I think I have tracked down the changes just prior to > 7.1-RELEASE that is causing my Supermicro dual Xeon machines to > wedge. I did the binary search between 2008-10-02 and 2008-11-24 > without reproducing any lockups, and then I went on to search between > 2008-11-24 and 2009-01-04. An SMP kernel build from 2008-12-22 > (r186409) sources was stable for over two weeks; a kernel built from > 2008-12-29 (r186590) sources wedged in under 24 hours under moderate > load. > > It appears that the significant changes between r186409 and r186590 > were r186552 (delphij - reverted ATA changes) and r186535/r186534 > (delphij - reverted bce changes). My machines don't have bce > interfaces, so I suspect the ATA changes. > Never mind. I'm stepping back through older kernels and finding that the hangs are now occurring in kernels that had seemed to be stable... Guyhome | help
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