From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 7 10:41: 7 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6C2D37B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:41:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514B843FA3 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:41:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [64.49.215.141]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 621EC8C9FB6; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:41:05 -0400 (AST) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 14:41:05 -0400 (AST) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Scott Long Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bug in aac driver ... ? In-Reply-To: <3E68B7DC.2040701@btc.adaptec.com> Message-ID: <20030307143841.T18433@hub.org> References: <20030305224856.R38115@hub.org> <3E68B7DC.2040701@btc.adaptec.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 7 Mar 2003, Scott Long wrote: > Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Evening all ... > > > > I have an Intel server (SVW7500, or some designation like that) setup > > with an Adaptec 2120S controller in it: > > > > aac0: mem 0xf8000000-0xfbffffff irq 2 at device 9.0 on pci1 > > aac0: i960RX 100MHz, 48MB cache memory, optional battery present > > aac0: Kernel 4.0-0, Build 5770, S/N 232fb7 > > > > Originally, when we installed it, we had a problem where, while booting, > > you would suddenly get the 'aac timeout' message scroll up the screen, > > that has/had since been fixed ... > > > > Yesterday, after doing some work on one of our servers to increase the # > > of vnodes, I added and built a new kernel with: > > > > options VM_KMEM_SIZE="(400*1024*1024)" > > options VM_KMEM_SIZE_MAX="(400*1024*1024)" > > > > Which I have running on venus (its using an AMI RAID card) without any > > hassles ... upon reboot of the Adaptec/Intel server, I once more am > > getting the Timeouts and inability to boot ... a kernel built 10 minutes > > earlier, without those options, but the exact same code, runs fine, so > > something with the VM_KMEM_SIZE increase is causing the problem ... > > > > Help? > > I'll investigate why this happens. How much physical RAM do you have in > the system? Can you put the card on the other PCI bus that's on that > motherboard and see if there is any difference? the server has 4gig of RAM, with KVA_PAGES set to 512 and the above settings for VM_KMEM_SIZE* ... As for switching slots, difficult as the server is a remote server ... :( To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message