From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 27 14:45:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09EAF16A4CE for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:45:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5171A43D39 for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:45:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamesoff@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 71so157874wra for ; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 06:45:48 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=jiLESp1Xy3S9JQ74xTKIL8/r8YveToxAWgALYJIpZ/Uw99nLMNCIPgSUQLcDoe73PnZYLvcgi/j/bBBcfLD4VVSReVzq1YQCEnGkwA29/UH2GDuLm++myczRZTtQCKOlHrdWqB27JGqnJ3N253FGTlUI1jmkys0Z/vKnXdbakMY= Received: by 10.54.33.61 with SMTP id g61mr588968wrg; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 06:45:48 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.38.6 with HTTP; Sun, 27 Mar 2005 06:45:48 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <720051dc0503270645793fa831@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 15:45:48 +0100 From: James Seward To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1110213509.593.18.camel@p4-3200.local> <20050307171009.GA37856@e-Gitt.NET> <20050307171244.GO22873@hub.freebsd.org> <20050307210539.GJ90757@numachi.com> <20050307212825.GB34940@hub.freebsd.org> <720051dc0503100503135ffaee@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: James Seward List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 14:45:50 -0000 On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 11:04:50 -0800, Doug Hardie wrote: > You might want to install the smartmontools port and use it to access > the disk performance data. That should give you good information on > the status of the drives and any problems they have encountered. > Smartmontools reports no problems with the drives; the system doesn't appear to be over heating at all. A bit more investigation shows it's panic'ing with "privileged instruction in non-priviliged mode" in what appears to be lseek(). This may or may not be related to the DMA TIMEOUT problem as I didn't see any timeouts before any of the panics I've witnessed. A bit more reading around suggests that the timeout issue is strongly related to my SI3112 SATA controller so I'm thinking of changing it; can anyone please recommend an SATA controller they're using which hasn't given them any problems? (Even better if they have Maxtor drives hanging off it!) I am also attempting to upgrade my system to a newer cvs but unfortunately I can't buildkernel on it - it'll either panic or generate enough timeouts to make "make" fail. If anyone could point me at a HOWTO or similar on cross-compiling then I'll compile it on my other machine instead (2xP3-1Ghz vs my desktop being an Athlon XP 1700+). All help appreciated as currently my desktop is becoming unusable and I fear for the safety of my data with the sheer number of panics being generated by disk use :)