Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:48:21 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: support quality (Re: dump | restore fails: unknown tape headertype 1853384566) Message-ID: <20090326094821.GG56137@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.20090325072137.00ee6b48@sage-american.com> References: <49C9E635.5010106@kkip.pl> <49C83673.3000604@aldan.algebra.com> <200903251820.54749.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <49C9E635.5010106@kkip.pl> <3.0.1.32.20090325072137.00ee6b48@sage-american.com>
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--sLx0z+5FKKtIVDwd Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2009-Mar-25 07:21:37 -0500, "Jack L. Stone" <jacks@sage-american.com> wr= ote: >However, last month upon upon upgrading those servers from FBSD-6.3px >(RELEASE) to 7.0px (RELEASE) we found that about one-half of the servers >had a similar problem as the original poster while the other half did not. =2E.. >the next day, and the next day, and the next day. (The servers that did >work fooled us and we found out about this issue on the others when the >overlaps appeared and drew our attention). That's when our work to try and >solve the issues started and went on for days. It's not clear to me whether all your servers have the problem and you only initially noticed it on some of them or some of your servers work and others dont. In the latter case, you are probably in a very good position to identify the problem since it is related to some difference between your servers. >We could only conclude that the problem was perhaps something with >hardeware, perhaps the way memory was handled in 7.0, but that is only a >guess. If you are talking about server-grade hardware (ECC RAM etc) then it's unlikely to be RAM corruption. About the only thing I can think of would be that if you have RAM above 4GB, you might be running foul of an address being truncated somewhere (particularly in a device driver). (The amd64 user memory map changed between 7.x and 8.x but I don't think there was any change between 6.x & 7.x). The pre-emption changes in 7.x and/or moving to an SMP host would seem to increase the probability of hitting the problem fixed in the patch mentioned later (kern/121684). --=20 Peter Jeremy --sLx0z+5FKKtIVDwd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAknLT2UACgkQ/opHv/APuIfFAwCbBy84eVmPrGqb0ZvfXzQc7990 fVcAn1RbsWihH+PZ17zrvEebStBsrcCt =2jIt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sLx0z+5FKKtIVDwd--
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