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Date:      Thu, 22 Feb 2007 08:26:50 +0100 (CET)
From:      "Zbigniew Szalbot" <zbyszek@szalbot.homedns.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze
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Dear Derek, Kris and others,

Solved - thank you very much for your help! It was the ehthernet adapter.
I got an Intel adapter and haven't had a single problem with freezes.

Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction.

Warm regards,

Zbigniew Szalbot

Derek Ragona wrote:
> Hard to tell if it is your dc0 ethernet adapter or a swap issue.  I would
>  try a different ethernet controller and see what happens as that is a
> cheap experiment.
>
> -Derek
>
>
>
> At 04:30 PM 2/15/2007, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> Derek Ragona wrote:
>>
>>> First you should provide more information such as the output from
>>> your dmesg, whether you have the server running X or just text mode.
>>
>> In my case I do not run X, the system mostly operates mysql database
>> and exim MTA (and this causes a bigger load sometimes up to 3.0 or so).
>>
>>>
>>> Describe your lockup, does the system completely freeze, or is it
>>> still ping-able?
>> In my case it is always a complete freeze but only for a relatively
>> short period of time (20-30 seconds, sometimes longer though - up to 2
>> minutes).
>>
>> For example, I noticed on a few occasions that when I used cat |grep on
>> a log file and the output displayed on screen was quite extensive (lots
>> of data), the system would freeze. But not always.
>>
>> Here's the dmesg.today output:
>>
>>
>> Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project.
>> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>>  The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
>> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
>> FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 22 12:52:41 CET 2007
>> root@192.168.11.51:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LISTS
>> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>> CPU: Intel Pentium III (868.20-MHz 686-class CPU)
>> Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x686  Stepping = 6
>>
>>
>> Features=0x387f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,
>> CMOV,PAT,PSE36,PN,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
>> real memory  = 535691264 (510 MB) avail memory = 514801664 (490 MB) kbd1
>> at kbdmux0 acpi0: <MEIP01 > on motherboard
>> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
>> Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
>> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0
>> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
>> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
>> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
>> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
>> agp0: <Intel 82810E (i810E GMCH) SVGA controller> mem
>> 0xe8000000-0xebffffff,0xeff80000-0xefffffff irq 10 at device 1.0 on pci0
>>  pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
>> pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
>> dc0: <Davicom DM9102A 10/100BaseTX> port 0xbc00-0xbcff mem
>> 0xefdfff00-0xefdfffff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
>> miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0
>> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
>> ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>> dc0: Ethernet address: 00:80:ad:82:6e:58
>> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
>> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>> atapci0: <Intel ICH UDMA66 controller> port
>> 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xffa0-0xffaf at device 31.1 on pci0
>>  ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
>> ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
>> pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 31.2 (no driver attached)
>> pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
>> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
>> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
>> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
>> kbd0 at atkbd0 atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>> fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f3,0x3f4-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6
>>  drq 2 on acpi0 fdc0: [FAST]
>> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>> sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on
>> acpi0
>> sio0: type 16550A
>> ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 drq
>> 3
>> on acpi0 ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
>> ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
>> ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
>> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
>> lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
>> pmtimer0 on isa0 orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xcbfff on isa0
>> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
>> sio1: port may not be enabled
>> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on
>> isa0 Timecounter "TSC" frequency 868204315 Hz quality 800
>> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
>> ad0: 76319MB <WDC WD800JB-00JJC0 05.01C05> at ata0-master UDMA66
>> acd0: CDROM <LTN485/KQG1> at ata0-slave PIO4
>> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> swap_pager: out of swap space
>> swap_pager_getswapspace(1): failed
>> swap_pager_getswapspace(15): failed
>> swap_pager_getswapspace(7): failed
>> swap_pager: out of swap space
>> swap_pager_getswapspace(6): failed
>> pid 85217 (mysqld), uid 88, was killed: out of swap space dc0: watchdog
>> timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>> dc0: watchdog timeout
>>
>>
>> The instance where mysql was killed did not happen today but a few days
>>  ago, when there was an excessive load on the box. I failed to
>> implement some precautions and as a result the load went above 10.
>>
>> Thanks for any further hints. I get 1, 2 such freezes a day.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Zbigniew Szalbot
>>
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