From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Aug 25 17:34:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA09360 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:34:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from russian-caravan.cloud9.net (russian-caravan.cloud9.net [168.100.1.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA09010 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 17:32:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scottd@cloud9.net) Received: from earl-grey.cloud9.net (IDENT:He0KFf5pb2SG8W+WbHgMZTdG5+OMAmCg@earl-grey.cloud9.net [168.100.1.1]) by russian-caravan.cloud9.net (8.9.1a/8.9.0/rc-19980602) with SMTP id UAA15373; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:28:20 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:28:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Scott Drassinower To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel 100+ troubles In-Reply-To: <199808251717.RAA00891@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > There have been some serious NFS-related fixes subsequent to 2.2.6; it > is quite possible that you're seeing the bugs that these addressed > rather than a hardware problem. It is useful to add the 'l' flag to > ps(1) and see what the hung processes have in their WCHAN field, as > this gives more detail than just "disk wait". UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 0 2438 2429 0 -18 0 228 520 vmopar D p4- 0:00.02 sz vmopar is new to me. > If you have an opportunity, you might want to build a 2.2.7 kernel and > see if you can reproduce the problems. If you don't have the resources > to do this in-house, you should be able to ask on the freebsd-stable > list for someone to generate a -stable kernel for you to try. Will I need a 2.2.7 system to build a 2.2.7 kernel? It's just really weird that the problem only seems to happen at 100 megabits. The only thing I haven't done at this point is taken out the fxp card and tried something else. -- Scott M. Drassinower scottd@cloud9.net Cloud 9 Consulting, Inc. White Plains, NY +1 914 696-4000 http://www.cloud9.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message