Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:48:55 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: Panagiotis Astithas <past@noc.ntua.gr> Cc: Konstantin 'Kosta' Welke <damaker@fillibach.de> Subject: Re: Freezes on heavy disk I/O Message-ID: <20040521194855.141f4757@it.buh.cameradicommercio.ro> In-Reply-To: <40AE2776.30806@noc.ntua.gr> References: <opr8cwfai3dvpa9u@auth.smtp.kundenserver.de> <40AE2776.30806@noc.ntua.gr>
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On Fri, 21 May 2004 18:59:50 +0300 Panagiotis Astithas <past@noc.ntua.gr> wrote: > Konstantin 'Kosta' Welke wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I've got a box running FreeBSD 5.2.1. Sometimes, it just > > freezes. Doesn't react to _any_thing except a hard reset. > > > > This is reproductable in some cases, all involving mainly > > disk I/O. > > > > 1) When burning a CD (on another computer) from a samba share > > on the freebsd box, the box repliably freezes. This also > > happens when I'm encoding a DVD rip to avi on my windows box, > > while the DVD files are on the freebsd samba server. > > > > 2) When doing stuff like portupgrade -a, it often (but always > > at different files/ports) freezes. This happens especially > > often when compiling gcc. (That's why I'm using the package now). > > > > 3) Sometimes it just freezes like this, when playing an mp3, > > surfing the 'net, etc. > > > > I used memtest enabling all test for 9 hours finding no errors. > > Also, it's no overheating problem as it is not overclocked > > nor is there any hot air coming out of the CPU fan when those > > freezes occur. > > > > Any ideas? > > I have similar observations in my 5.2.1 machine. The recurring theme has > always been that I was running under X and the freeze killed the > console, although the machine responded to ping. > > When I tried the same action (a "portsdb -uU" or "portupgrade -a" in my > case) from a virtual console I saw a panic. Since this never happens on > my -current machine, I believe it is something already fixed in the tree. Actually I think it still happens; I've had the need for a few hard resets on my desktop with -current about 1 1/2 months; but it definitely happen less that about 6 months or about a year ago, so it seems we're on the right way :) -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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