Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 11:00:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3-BETA1 hard lockups (HP DL380 G3) Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040825110000.89999b-100000@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20040824235426.U93926@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us>
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On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Chris Dillon wrote: > Anybody else experiencing hard lockups with a recent 5.3-BETA? I can > manage to build and install a kernel if I hold my breath while doing it, > but I can't make it through a buildworld without the system locking up > hard enough to require a manual reset (thank goodness for iLO and its > virtual reset button :-). Yes -- there's a bug fix in HEAD for SMP-related VM races, but it's not yet merged to RELENG_5 as it's in a three day waiting period. It will be shortly. I've CC'd Doug White, the pertinent victim. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research > > The hardware I'm working on is a HP Proliant DL380 G3, with dual > 2.8GHz Xeons, 2GB RAM, and using the on-board SmartArray 5i+ > controller with six 72GB 10KRPM disks in a RAID5 configuration. > Everything worked fine at first, even went through a few > kernels+worlds and plenty of port builds over the last month, but > within the last week or so these hard lockups started happening during > kernel/world builds (probably any moderate load would do). I thought > maybe something might have gone wrong with the hardware so I ran the > HP Diagnostics on it for 24 hours in a continuous loop and everything > went fine. Any clues? > > -- > Chris Dillon - cdillon(at)wolves.k12.mo.us > FreeBSD: The fastest, most open, and most stable OS on the planet > - Available for IA32, IA64, AMD64, PC98, Alpha, and UltraSPARC architectures > - PowerPC, ARM, MIPS, and S/390 under development > - http://www.freebsd.org > > Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. > A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon? > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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