From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 7 13:26:24 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 7D96037B401 for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:26:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-233-57-224.client.attbi.com [12.233.57.224]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C00AA43F3F for ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:26:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h27LQGLT063961; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:26:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h27LQF7c063960; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:26:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from das@FreeBSD.ORG) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 13:26:15 -0800 From: David Schultz To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: Scott Long , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bug in aac driver ... ? Message-ID: <20030307212615.GA63881@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Marc G. Fournier" , Scott Long , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030305224856.R38115@hub.org> <20030307090449.GB61037@HAL9000.homeunix.com> <3E68B705.4070409@btc.adaptec.com> <20030307143810.O18433@hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030307143810.O18433@hub.org> 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 Thus spake Marc G. Fournier : > > David Schultz wrote: > > > I don't know why VM_KMEM_SIZE would tickle a RAID controller > > > problem, but I've seen timeout message similar to the one you > > > describe with a flaky SCSI controller. (Try statically compiling > > > all relevant drivers into the kernel if you're not already.) The > > > fix for me was to reduce the tag depth with camcontrol. Try a > > > value around 8 or so; there shouldn't be much, if any, of a > > > performance difference. > > > > > > camcontrol tags devicename -N8 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > The aac driver does not use the CAM SCSI interface for accessing its > > RAID arrays, so changing parameters there will have no effect. > > Oh good, I thought I was doing something wrong when I kept getting errors > trying to access it through camcontrol :) Brain fart, my apologies. aac != ahc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message