From owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 7 01:30:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 35D8116A419 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 01:30:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from pooker.samsco.org (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6FBF13C461 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2008 01:30:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Received: from phobos.samsco.home (phobos.samsco.home [192.168.254.11]) (authenticated bits=0) by pooker.samsco.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m071UDJ7001765; Sun, 6 Jan 2008 18:30:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from scottl@samsco.org) Message-ID: <478180A5.3080406@samsco.org> Date: Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:30:13 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jeffery G. Archambeau" References: <477F98B2.8030901@tehlunix.org> In-Reply-To: <477F98B2.8030901@tehlunix.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (pooker.samsco.org [168.103.85.57]); Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:30:14 -0700 (MST) X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.4 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.1.8 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.8 (2007-02-13) on pooker.samsco.org Cc: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dump card state begins... X-BeenThere: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: SCSI subsystem List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2008 01:30:17 -0000 Jeffery G. Archambeau wrote: > This particular box has been up and running without incident for a > couple of years, now. It's running 6.2-RELEASE-p7 with the on-board > Adaptec scsi controller. > > This morning, the box was painfully slow. top shows that nothing's > hogging CPU or RAM. bandwidth monitors show that the box isn't being > attacked. Then dmesg showed this.... Help? > > > ahd0: PCI error Interrupt > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dump Card State Begins <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< This might be something like dust build-up in the case or thermal creep in the card and/or memory contacts, especially since it's been running without incident for so long. I'd open up the machine, vacuum it out, reseat all of the cards and memory modules, and see if it happens again. Scott