From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 13 13:11:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA4C51065672; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:11:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@tragedy.rink.nu) Received: from mx1.rink.nu (alastor.rink.nu [213.34.49.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B6288FC29; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:11:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rink@tragedy.rink.nu) Received: from localhost (alastor.rink.nu [213.34.49.5]) by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC1ABFECA4; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:11:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rink.nu Received: from mx1.rink.nu ([213.34.49.5]) by localhost (alastor.rink.nu [213.34.49.5]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 4UK+mOZgk90r; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tragedy.rink.nu (tragedy.rink.nu [213.34.49.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.rink.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CF68BFEC61; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from tragedy.rink.nu (tragedy.rink.nu [213.34.49.3]) by tragedy.rink.nu (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m2DDB69O062266; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:11:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rink@tragedy.rink.nu) Received: (from rink@localhost) by tragedy.rink.nu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m2DDB6NT062265; Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:11:06 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rink) Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:11:06 +0100 From: Rink Springer To: Barney Cordoba Message-ID: <20080313131106.GG77132@rink.nu> References: <20080313124057.GF77132@rink.nu> <252558.33373.qm@web63911.mail.re1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <252558.33373.qm@web63911.mail.re1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Cc: Rink Springer , current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 7.0 Panic under network load X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:11:17 -0000 Hi, On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 06:01:38AM -0700, Barney Cordoba wrote: > Given the known issues with the HT1000 chipset, I'd > take a guess that its the driver and not the disk. But > I'll run the test again tonight with a different disk > and see what happens. Well, browsing the CVS log of sys/dev/ata/ata-chipset.c, it seems this fix was incorperated before 7.0-RELEASE. > As an aside to this, what is the logic in having a > panic in a disk subsystem? Its not a fatal error to > the operation of a system. The disk subsystem is not the problem; there are known problems in UFS. For example, it relies on being able to always flush buffers, and will trigger panics if it encounters dirty buffers after it explicitely asked to flush them... -- Rink P.W. Springer - http://rink.nu "Anyway boys, this is America. Just because you get more votes doesn't mean you win." - Fox Mulder