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Date:      Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:57:46 -0700
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@freebsd.org>
To:        Joachim Tingvold <joachim@tingvold.com>
Cc:        freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org, Alexander Motin <mav@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: mps0-troubles
Message-ID:  <20110120155746.GA22515@nargothrond.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <07392102-4584-4690-9188-5202728CC7CA@tingvold.com>
References:  <mailpost.1294832739.2809102.16331.mailing.freebsd.scsi@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw> <4D2DAA45.30602@FreeBSD.org> <B2CFC8A1-FA1D-4718-99C3-AC3430A905C2@tingvold.com> <41C64262-4300-4187-B5FD-04A5EFB7F87C@tingvold.com> <20110113203750.GA39494@nargothrond.kdm.org> <B22C5568-24D0-4530-B90A-BA6A6CAF111C@tingvold.com> <20110114001758.GA12793@nargothrond.kdm.org> <D24332F3-56AF-484C-9592-1097BF684E37@tingvold.com> <07392102-4584-4690-9188-5202728CC7CA@tingvold.com>

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On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 04:34:50 +0100, Joachim Tingvold wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 14, 2011, at 01:38:27AM GMT+01:00, Joachim Tingvold wrote:
> >>I don't think so.  If anything, I think that this is likely  
> >>triggered by
> >>a large number of outstanding commands, or perhaps a leak  
> >>somewhere.  If
> >>it's the former, hopefully this will fix it.  If it's the latter,  
> >>you'll
> >>eventually run into the problem again.
> >
> >Okay. I've changed the value. I'll keep you posted.
> 
> Some more errors; 
> <http://home.komsys.org/~jocke/dmesg_mps0_freebsd-scsi_3.txt >. Same as 
> earlier, but without the "out of chain"-messages (probably  just because I 
> increased the number, so that this specific error- message isn't printed?).
> 
> This happened without direct user-interaction (it's a cron-job that  
> copies files from 'zroot' to 'storage', and deletes some stuff on  
> 'zroot' afterwards). However, it seems as if I can access the files/ 
> folders on 'storage' without the terminal freezing (based on the log- 
> messages, I was able to pinpoint the last 2-3 copied folders, and  
> those I could list/copy files from without the terminal freezing). I'm  
> not sure why, though. Maybe because the error/crash occurred when no  
> files where being copied/moved?

So did the system freeze or crash this time?

Do you have a serial console on the machine?

If it hangs or crashes, perhaps we can get a stack trace.

It does look like the out of chain problem was fixed by increasing the
number, so that's good at least.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@FreeBSD.ORG



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