Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 10:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/10872: Panic in sorecieve() Message-ID: <199905111750.KAA62881@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/10872; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, bob@pmr.com, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kern/10872: Panic in sorecieve() Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:47:07 -0500 On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 01:28:42AM +0800, Peter Wemm wrote: > Pierre Beyssac wrote: > > I was looking into PR kern/10872, hoping to find an easily fixable > > occurence of NULL mbuf pointer. But it doesn't seem to be. > > I just looked at the PR. He's running: > > ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 12 on pci0.10.0 > ahc0: aic7870 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs > ncr0: <ncr 53c810 fast10 scsi> rev 0x01 int a irq 11 on pci0.12.0 > ncr1: <ncr 53c875 fast20 wide scsi> rev 0x03 int a irq 9 on pci0.13.0 > > It should be noted that freefall had a severe case of problems like this > that all but disappeared when the ncr cards were swapped for an ahc2940U2W. I wish that were so. I wound up replacing the entire system (everything except the tape library and drive) with one that has 2 ncr adapters in it (one for the holding disks and the other for the tape library/drive) and still got the panic. > > Quite how this should make such a dramatic difference is a bit of a > mystery. We were seeing really strange things like a bit of the kernel > stack being partly trashed and messing up some local variables.. This problem seems to be very timing sensative. I will try to recreate it again here on my -current test system. Bob > > Cheers, > -Peter -- Bob Willcox The man who follows the crowd will usually get no bob@luke.pmr.com further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is Austin, TX likely to find himself in places no one has ever been. -- Alan Ashley-Pitt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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