From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 8 07:28:35 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B30CA16A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 07:28:35 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8AB1E43D4C for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2005 07:28:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from "cyb."@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Mar 2005 07:28:33 -0000 Received: from pD9E28386.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO localhost.localdomain) (217.226.131.134) by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 08 Mar 2005 08:28:33 +0100 X-Authenticated: #4870692 From: cyb <"cyb."@gmx.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-023pGtnxxdEboL+/4t26" Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:28:32 +0100 Message-Id: <1110266912.551.2.camel@p4-3200.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 07:28:35 -0000 --=-023pGtnxxdEboL+/4t26 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, from time to time my FreeBSD freezes under heavy hdd load and only a hard reset will bring it back to life with fsck complaining about 'Softupdate Inconsistencies'. I had this behaviour on 5.3-RELEASE, 5.3-RELEASE-p5 and now i have it on 5.4-PRERELEASE. I am using a custom kernel with SMP enabled on a P4 3.2GHz for hyperthreading. One hdd is a SATA drive and it acts fine. The other hdd however is an ATA133 drive and i suspect it to be the problem, since freezes only occur when it is busy (eg. copying much data from a DVD/HDD to it or compiling a port). Whenever the system freezes there is no warning or log entry at all. I used 'smartmontools' to check the drive, but there was not found anything and the hdd appeared to be fully operational. I have 1GB (2x512MB PC3200) in the box and memtest86 was ok too. Could the freezes come from a faulty IDE hdd (which would mean that I better get rid of it), or are there other possiblities. Thank you, Andreas=20 --=20 GnuPG key : 0xD25FCC81 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.asc Fingerprint: D182 6F22 7EEC DD4C 0F6E 564C 691B 0372 D25F CC81 --=-023pGtnxxdEboL+/4t26 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCLVQgaRsDctJfzIERAm31AKCImPyIkRZIE6FCr3yYqCU/iZirtgCfW2cL 63ElX7fU63Rc/BCFMvab34E= =2ovE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-023pGtnxxdEboL+/4t26--