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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:44:08 +1000
From:      Nick Slager <nicks@albury.net.au>
To:        Thomas Zenker <thz@Lennartz-electronic.de>
Cc:        scsi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Invalidating pack messages
Message-ID:  <20000628224408.A63626@albury.net.au>
In-Reply-To: <20000628100329.A867@mezcal.tue.le>; from thz@Lennartz-electronic.de on Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 10:03:29AM %2B0200
References:  <20000620172810.A84355@albury.net.au> <200006200754.AAA28201@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> <20000621143609.A3012@albury.net.au> <200006220729.AAA07327@salsa.gv.tsc.tdk.com> <20000623173844.A51332@albury.net.au> <20000627154536.A35696@albury.net.au> <20000628100329.A867@mezcal.tue.le>

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Thus spake Thomas Zenker (thz@Lennartz-electronic.de):

> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 03:45:36PM +1000, Nick Slager wrote:
> > In any case, it would appear there is something odd going on that involves
> > write caching. I will turn write caching off again, do a 'make world', and
> > hopefully the confidence factor will start to rise :-)
> 
> Hi, having at least the same symptoms like you, I could isolate
> the problem here to tagged queuing + heavy writes. It never happens
> for reading only, seeks etc. So I can read the whole disk (9G) to
> /dev/null without problems, but writing a big file with iozone or
> dd failes very quickly. I could eliminate the problem by switching of
> tagged queuing, with bad performance loss (write cache is turned off, bad
> this didn't help very much), but it survives buildworlds and writes of 6G files.

So far, I can't kill the thing with write caching disabled. That also has the
least performance hit, so until it fails, I can live with it :-)

Regards,


Nick.

-- 
 From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
  "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."



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