From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 31 13:41:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 850052B9 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:41:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from feld@FreeBSD.org) Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com (out1-smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.25]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5A44522B8 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from compute4.internal (compute4.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.44]) by gateway1.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix) with ESMTP id 359A520BD1 for ; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:41:55 -0400 (EDT) Received: from web3 ([10.202.2.213]) by compute4.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:41:55 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d= messagingengine.com; h=message-id:from:to:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:content-type:subject:date:in-reply-to :references; s=smtpout; bh=pUEEP8z1a3/LWmW6XJMPuH1aPkM=; b=CuKS8 c3cCH5CcTdDlqL9LX5U+LBGfZSLKRdNLvmijdqyxQvZuBDK26ykSVZZEYgzJnApI GzmROoaXSUL1mLn9u77bywndHSVp2mpxd7VDVB05ozZcQSPF9OPLBHoJL/hj9rQa 1mBGS9jkaZmOGBZCgWwan0R0dH9CTxWLD0y9os= Received: by web3.nyi.mail.srv.osa (Postfix, from userid 99) id F4004B01F7E; Wed, 31 Jul 2013 09:41:54 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <1375278114.15234.3692179.76D31AF7@webmail.messagingengine.com> X-Sasl-Enc: NxnsJerIJ34TY4AFNG+tdY2MvDepVcQgde+lYR1BUlJa 1375278114 From: Mark Felder To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain X-Mailer: MessagingEngine.com Webmail Interface - ajax-9e4be734 Subject: Re: System hangs for several minutes (disk IO related) Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 08:41:54 -0500 In-Reply-To: <51F91101.4080301@fjl.co.uk> References: <20130730171938.GA3602@aurora.oekb.co.at> <51F91101.4080301@fjl.co.uk> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 13:41:56 -0000 If you Google SmartArray P400 I'm sure you will find tons of horror stories. As soon as I saw that in your post I recalled looking into an issue for a customer not too long ago. In short, it's a very bad controller with tons of issues. I could be mistaking this for another controller, but I'm pretty confident this is the same one.