Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 12:08:22 +0100 From: Richard Nyberg <rnyberg@it.su.se> To: Samuel Tardieu <sam@inf.enst.fr> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, "Kristian K. Nielsen" <freebsd@jkkn.dk> Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver Message-ID: <20011207120822.A19038@gromit.it.su.se> In-Reply-To: <2001-12-07-10-59-13%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr>; from sam@inf.enst.fr on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:59:13AM %2B0100 References: <20011205204045.GA7485@zigman.2y.net> <2001-12-07-10-59-13%2Btrackit%2Bsam@inf.enst.fr>
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:59:13AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote: > I am experiencing the same crashes on my new machine (ATA100 IDE drive): they > appeared when I noticed that I had forgotten to use soft-updates. After > I have turned them on, I experienced the first crash in 15 minutes. Then I > get one every two days, when doing heavy disk IOs. I got a crash 10 minutes > ago when the machine was unattended though (and not doing important disk > IOs), and could see a "panic" message on the console. Unfortunately, I hadn't > enough free space in /var/crash to save the kernel. > > Do you people use soft-updates? From my experience on this problem, I assume > that either soft-updates or the ATA driver may be causing those spontanous > reboots. Yes I use soft-updates. The peculiar thing aboout my crash though is that there was no panic; the machine just froze and the screen went blank, so maybe I was hit by a different problem. -Richard To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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