Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:28:32 +0100 From: cyb <"cyb."@gmx.net> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load Message-ID: <1110266912.551.2.camel@p4-3200.local>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hello, from time to time my FreeBSD freezes under heavy hdd load and only a hard reset will bring it back to life with fsck complaining about 'Softupdate Inconsistencies'. I had this behaviour on 5.3-RELEASE, 5.3-RELEASE-p5 and now i have it on 5.4-PRERELEASE. I am using a custom kernel with SMP enabled on a P4 3.2GHz for hyperthreading. One hdd is a SATA drive and it acts fine. The other hdd however is an ATA133 drive and i suspect it to be the problem, since freezes only occur when it is busy (eg. copying much data from a DVD/HDD to it or compiling a port). Whenever the system freezes there is no warning or log entry at all. I used 'smartmontools' to check the drive, but there was not found anything and the hdd appeared to be fully operational. I have 1GB (2x512MB PC3200) in the box and memtest86 was ok too. Could the freezes come from a faulty IDE hdd (which would mean that I better get rid of it), or are there other possiblities. Thank you, Andreas -- GnuPG key : 0xD25FCC81 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.asc Fingerprint: D182 6F22 7EEC DD4C 0F6E 564C 691B 0372 D25F CC81 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCLVQgaRsDctJfzIERAm31AKCImPyIkRZIE6FCr3yYqCU/iZirtgCfW2cL 63ElX7fU63Rc/BCFMvab34E= =2ovE -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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