From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 18 13:48:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.aracnet.com (mail4.aracnet.com [216.99.193.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14B6A37B9D9 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:48:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beattie@aracnet.com) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (IDENT:root@shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail4.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA28628; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:48:40 -0800 Received: from localhost by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id NAA26026; Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:48:46 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.aracnet.com: beattie owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 13:48:46 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie To: Adam Cc: Joao Pedras , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freezing In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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