Date: Fri, 27 Feb 1998 13:06:39 +0200 (SAT) From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Temporary freezes on a Compaq Message-ID: <199802271106.NAA10700@cdsec.com>
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Hi all A friend of mine has asked me if I can help him solve a problem he is experiencing with FreeBSD 2.2.2 running on a Compaq with 32Mb RAM (although his kernel isn't patched so only 16Mb is seen), two 3C509 Ethernet cards, and an IDE HDD. The machine is acting as a gateway between two networks. Apparently every so often (quite frequently) all activity on the machine freezes for 3-4 seconds and then resumes. Or rather, all network activity; no one is actually working on the console so I don't know whether this applies to non-network activity as well. I asked him to check the load, free memory, etc, to try to determine whether it is simply caused by bus-mastering disk activity; however, it seems the load is not very high and there is no obvious cause related to disk I/O. Has anyone experienced this? Is it perhaps related to the 3C509 driver? Any suggestions would be appreciated. TIA Graham To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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