Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 17:18:43 -0700 From: Nate Williams <nate@sri.MT.net> To: bugs@freebsd.netcom.com (Mark Hittinger) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: re: processes won't die (fwd) Message-ID: <199602250018.RAA26271@rocky.sri.MT.net> In-Reply-To: <199602242351.RAA07014@freebsd.netcom.com> References: <199602242351.RAA07014@freebsd.netcom.com>
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[ Swapping on IDE and SCSI causes problems ]
> > Does this problem exist w/current or stable? I'm running a 2.1R box
> > with swap on both under sometimes heavy loads with no problems.
>
> I see the problem under both current and stable. I'm starting to suspect
> that there is a weird swap disk i/o transaction that is screwing up in the
> scsi subsystem, and that the same kind of transaction doesn't happen in
> the ufs world.
>
> What are your scsi drives and what is your controller? How much swap space
> do you have on your system and how much memory do you have?
Let me go look.
FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE #3: Mon Jan 8 17:47:44 MST 1996
root@moth.sri.MT.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/SNDMOTH
CPU: 99-MHz Pentium 735\\90 or 815\\100 (Pentium-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping=5
Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,PSE,MCE,CX8,APIC>
real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
avail memory = 31059968 (30332K bytes)
Probing for devices on the PCI bus:
chip0 <Intel 82437 (Triton)> rev 1 on pci0:0
chip1 <Intel 82371 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:7
...
ncr0 <ncr 53c810 scsi> rev 2 int a irq 11 on pci0:12
(ncr0:0:0): "FUJITSU M1606S-512 6220" type 0 fixed SCSI 2
...
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <WDC AC31000H>
wd0: 1033MB (2116800 sectors), 2100 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
[ The above disk is a 1Gig WD Cavier drive. (Don't ask, I didn't buy it) ]
moth:/home/nate % swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/sd0s2b 65536 0 65472 0% Interleaved
/dev/wd0s3b 49152 0 49088 0% Interleaved
Total 114560 0 114560 0%
This machine boots off both the SCSI disk or the IDE disk (SCSI == 2.1R
and IDE == old current ]
Nate
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