Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:48:46 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> To: Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net> Cc: Joao Pedras <jpedras@webvolution.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freezing Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002181341370.17398-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0002181613220.92608-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Adam wrote: > I do not mean to throw blame on freebsd at all (unless tons of people also > see this) but I had a freeze earlier today. I had several windows open, > netscape, and was compiling qt2 with not much disk activity at all when it > just froze hard as a rock in all ways I can think of. If it happens again > I'll look into ddc and serial console or perhaps recreating on normal > console. I dont suspect hardware fault but I wouldn't dismiss it. > > On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Joao Pedras wrote: > > >Hello all > > > >While making -j 4 buildworld and moving a netscape window, everything frozen. > >Happens often if do other things while cpu and disk are very active. > > > >Happens quite often. > > > >Anyone else has noticed this ? > > I have had a number of freezes, during a rm -rf and a find at the same time, during a cvs checkout, during a fsck on reboot. The fsck caused a message about an "SCB Timeout" I think. I have returned to slightly older 4.0-Current kernel and was going to build a new kernel. I can try to get more information this evening, if anybody is interested. For me the trigger seems to be heavy disk activity. configuration summary: K6-2 333, 80MB, aha2940(I think, adaptec PCI ultra), 4 2GB segate SCSI drives. Brian Beattie | The only problem with beattie@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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