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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 2002 02:25:49 -0800
From:      "Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org>
To:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMP stability ? [was Re: more info from panic from running
Message-ID:  <167820673.1037759149@[192.168.1.20]>
In-Reply-To: <200211200110.58852.thierry@herbelot.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0211191333040.61484-100000@root.org> <200211200110.58852.thierry@herbelot.com>

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I haven't had any Hard Locks since I upgraded the BIOS on my
BP6 from LP to RU and cvsup/buildworld/installworld again.

At the moment I'm thinking that my system is stable again, but
won't feel comfortable with that until I do some more stress
testing.  I've gotten a panic, but I think its unrelated.
( that's made this harder, multiple issues causing problems )

So if people are still having their BP6 do Hard Locks I would
suggest they make sure they're running the RU version of the
BIOS and the latest version of -current.

Thanks for the tip however.  If I continue to have Hard Locks
I'll try slowing down the IDE drives on the system.

--On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 1:10 AM +0100 Thierry Herbelot=20
<thierry@herbelot.com> wrote:

> Le Tuesday 19 November 2002 22:35, Nate Lawson a =E9crit :
>> I have a couple BP6's running -stable and was having hard lock
>> problems under heavy IO until I dropped back to ATA33 on the drives
>> (I moved them to the onboard Intel controller instead of the
>> HPT366).  sos@ informed me that the HPT366 has a buggy DMA
>> controller and that ATA66 on them wouldn't work.  After moving to
>> ATA33 in early 2001, I haven't had any more hard locks.  This was
>> under -stable, but you might want to check your ATA drive setup
>> before proceeding.
>
> Hello,
>
> I also had a lockup this morning, with both /usr/src and /usr/obj on
> the local  dma33 IDE disk, hooked on the BX ata canal (instead of the
> HPT366).
>
> the BP6 is on a serial console, but I still have to look how to get
> back to  DDB when it is frozen (I run a plain vanilla GENERIC+SMP, so
> I may have to  add other specific options - later)
>
> 	TfH
>
>
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