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Date:      Mon, 8 Jul 2002 13:47:43 -0600
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        Dave Hayes <dave@jetcafe.org>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Random hangs on (at least) SCSI reads
Message-ID:  <20020708134743.A66645@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <200207081851.g68Ipc069208@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>; from dave@jetcafe.org on Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 11:51:33AM -0700
References:  <200207081851.g68Ipc069208@hokkshideh2.jetcafe.org>

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On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 11:51:33 -0700, Dave Hayes wrote:
> Note the following machine:
> 
> FreeBSD dns.apolloi.com 4.5-RELEASE-p4
> ...
> ahc0: <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 
> 0xff8ff000-0xff8fffff irq 10 at device 1.0 on pci1
> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
> ...
> ahc1: <Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem 
> 0xff8fd000-0xff8fdfff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci1
> aic7892: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
> ...
> da0 at ahc0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da0: <IBM IC35L036UWD210-0 S5BS> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
> da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing 
> Enabled
> da0: 35003MB (71687340 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 35003C)
> da1 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
> da1: <IBM IC35L036UWD210-0 S5BS> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device 
> da1: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing 
> Enabled
> da1: 35003MB (71687340 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 35003C)
> 
> I can consistently get this to hang (machine locks up, no panic or
> anything to console) on multiple machines with the exact same
> configuration by reading from the disk at high rates of speed
> (e.g. while (1) { find / -exec cat {} \; >/dev/null }). 

That will probably lead to catting the entire contents of, e.g., /dev/mem,
which is a bad thing.

How about something like this:

while (1) { find / -type f -exec cat {} \; >/dev/null }). 

> Anyone have any experience with this problem? Yes, I am working on
> upgrading it to 4.6-p1.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org

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