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Date:      Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:29:45 -0700
From:      Bruce Caruthers <bkc-freebsdlists@dreamfire.com>
To:        FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: DOH! ata_alloc_request failed!
Message-ID:  <20070731112945.A19820@dreamfire.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070731030320.A40177@dreamfire.com>; from bkc-freebsdlists@dreamfire.com on Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 03:03:20AM -0700
References:  <20070731030320.A40177@dreamfire.com>

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On Tue Jul 31, 2007, Bruce Caruthers wrote:
>
> Um... should I be concerned?
>
> Jul 31 02:29:26 arachne2 kernel: DOH! ata_alloc_request failed!
>
> I was in the process of copying all my files over
> from my old server, but I didn't receive any errors
> during the copies except for this in the dmesg and
> messages logs... (and, unfortunately, since I was
> doing so many NFS and tarball copies/extracts, I am
> not sure which one hiccupped).  I do plan to verify
> all my copying, but should I be concerned with the
> stability of the system?
>
> === my system:
> "arachne2"
> FreeBSD6.2R/amd64
> Intel DG965WH mobo (7/25 BIOS)
> ICH8R SATA RAID (2x RAID-1)
> 4x Hitachi SATA300 320GB HDT725032VLA360
>
> === copying via NFS from: (in case it matters)
> "arachne"
> FreeBSD4.2R/i386
> Abit BX133-RAID mobo
> HighPoint HPT-370
>

It looks like there have been a bunch of other folks
seeing this problem, based on a google search, with
it apparently improved in 6.2 so at least it doesn't
crash.  (Soren Schmidt, Oct 2006)

There is also PR "kern/113647" which was closed due
to an unfortunate lack of info. (remko, Jun 2007)

However, it seems to still be an issue in 6.2R/amd64.

I was tarballing 100G from NFS mounted drives to
local RAID-1.  If there is other relevant log info I
can provide to help track this down, please let me
know what best to provide.  I don't want to blindly
dump tons of maybe-relevant info to the list.


Jul 31 02:29:26 arachne2 kernel: DOH! ata_alloc_request failed!
Jul 31 06:12:43 arachne2 kernel: FAILURE - out of memory in ata_raid_init_request
Jul 31 06:12:44 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=153294329856, length=2048)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:37 arachne2 kernel: DOH! ata_alloc_request failed!
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: FAILURE - out of memory in ata_raid_init_request
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 last message repeated 10 times
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=168948236288, length=16384)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=168948252672, length=16384)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=168948269056, length=16384)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=168948285440, length=16384)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=168948301824, length=16384)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=168948318208, length=16384)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=168948334592, length=16384)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=168948350976, length=16384)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=169140731904, length=16384)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=169140748288, length=16384)]error = 5
Jul 31 06:37:40 arachne2 kernel: g_vfs_done():ar0s1e[WRITE(offset=169526018048, length=16384)]error = 5




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