From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 12 12: 3:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from zigman.2y.net (korpen-86-221.ip-pluggen.com [212.181.86.221]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8126B37B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: by zigman.2y.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2C8DC1C53; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:02:55 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 21:02:55 +0100 From: Morsal Roudbay To: Alex Popa Cc: Brady Montz , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.4-STABLE crashes - suspects new ata-driver over wd-driver Message-ID: <20011212200254.GA30163@zigman.2y.net> Reply-To: Morsal Roudbay References: <200112050033.fB50X6G12476@mail.hydrologue.com> <20011210184258.GC25562@zigman.2y.net> <20011212214455.C10147@ldc.ro> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011212214455.C10147@ldc.ro> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4 [up 21:38] X-Return-Path: morsal@swipnet.se Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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