Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:02:55 +0100 From: Morsal Roudbay <morsal@swipnet.se> To: Alex Popa <razor@ldc.ro> Cc: Brady Montz <bradym@mail.hydrologue.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver Message-ID: <20011212200254.GA30163@zigman.2y.net> In-Reply-To: <20011212214455.C10147@ldc.ro> References: <200112050033.fB50X6G12476@mail.hydrologue.com> <20011210184258.GC25562@zigman.2y.net> <20011212214455.C10147@ldc.ro>
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On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:44:56PM +0200, Alex Popa wrote: > I still have the same kernel I reported the freezes with, but for now > the machine has been running for about 8 days, without crashes. > > I even ran bonnie++ over the weekend. It ran on the partition (actually > vinum mirrored volume) on which the system was writing when I had the > initial crashes. Arguments to bonnie++ were "-s 3g -n 128:16384:0:16". > I ran bonnie++ twice, first on the volume w/o softupdates, then w/ > softupdates, and I got no crashes. > > During the bonnie++ runs iostat showed some 22M/s activity on each disk, > so I am beginning to suspect there has to be a correlation between heavy > disk I/O and heavy network I/O (my initial crashes occured when someone > was making a large backup over SMB to the server, at about 9M/s disk > activity) in order to get the crashes. > > Also there might be something wrong with some part of the disks, because > when running bonnie++, the disks were about 12G more occupied. > > Again, I am running 4.4-RELEASE, kernel config is based on GENERIC, but > only with 686 CPU support, maxusers 128, no INET6, with IPFILTER, no > SCSI, no pccard. > > The next thing I am going to try (when I get physically to the server) > is to run bonnie++ in conjunction with some TCP/IP stress, first over > loopback, then over ethernet. > > Have Fun! Weird.. but mine is stable now, it doesnt crash at all. (since I got rid of SMP) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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