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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)

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