Date: Sat, 31 Jan 1998 18:59:29 -0500 From: dmaddox@scsn.net (Donald J. Maddox) To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: Peter Mutsaers <plm@xs4all.nl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -current locks my machine frequently Message-ID: <19980131185929.04618@scsn.net> In-Reply-To: <199801312344.KAA00674@word.smith.net.au>; from Mike Smith on Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 10:14:05AM %2B1030 References: <19980131184543.57933@scsn.net> <199801312344.KAA00674@word.smith.net.au>
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On Sun, Feb 01, 1998 at 10:14:05AM +1030, Mike Smith wrote:
> > No, you're definitely not the only one :-(
> >
> > John Dyson made some changes last night that I had hoped would finally
> > fix the problem, but I just had the machine lock up again a few minutes
> > ago. It always seems to occur when X is running (usually when Netscape
> > starts to swap heavily).
>
> Odd; I'm running -current on a very memory-short laptop, under X, using
> netscape/emacs/exmh, and it thrashes pretty solidly but certainly
> hasn't fallen over yet.
>
> I *have* noticed these odd pauses where all filesystem activity seems
> to block for a few seconds (maybe 10 or so). It's not disk spin-up
> either. This includes procfs activity, so I can't use ps to find out
> what's going on.
Is your laptop a P5 machine? I know that John has expressed the opinion
that this problem seems to be specific to P5s.
Just so we can all compare, and maybe find something common to machines
that are locking up, here is my dmesg o/p:
Copyright (c) 1992-1998 FreeBSD Inc.
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FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Jan 31 15:46:41 EST 1998
root@rhiannon.scsn.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/RHIANNON
CPU: Pentium (166.19-MHz 586-class CPU)
Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x52c Stepping=12
Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8>
real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
avail memory = 30486528 (29772K bytes)
Probing for devices on PCI bus 0:
chip0: <Intel 82439> rev 0x01 on pci0.0.0
chip1: <Intel 82371SB PCI to ISA bridge> rev 0x00 on pci0.7.0
ide_pci0: <Intel PIIX3 Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x00 on pci0.7.1
ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0x00 int a irq 10 on pci0.10.0
ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs
scbus0 at ahc0 bus 0
ahc0: target 0 Tagged Queuing Device
sd0 at scbus0 target 0 lun 0
sd0: <SEAGATE ST12550W 0002> type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd0: Direct-Access 2040MB (4178874 512 byte sectors)
sd0: with 2708 cyls, 19 heads, and an average 81 sectors/track
ahc0: target 1 Tagged Queuing Device
sd1 at scbus0 target 1 lun 0
sd1: <FUJITSU M2684S-512 2036> type 0 fixed SCSI 2
sd1: Direct-Access 507MB (1039329 512 byte sectors)
sd1: with 2380 cyls, 6 heads, and an average 72 sectors/track
cd0 at scbus0 target 2 lun 0
cd0: <MATSHITA CD-ROM CR-508 XS03> type 5 removable SCSI 2
cd0: CD-ROM cd present [19371 x 2048 byte records]
vga0: <S3 968 graphics accelerator> rev 0x00 int a irq 11 on pci0.12.0
Probing for PnP devices:
CSN 1 Vendor ID: CTL009e [0x9e008c0e] Serial 0x09f665ec
Probing for devices on the ISA bus:
sc0 at 0x60-0x6f irq 1 on motherboard
sc0: VGA color <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x0>
lpt0 at 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
lp0: TCP/IP capable interface
sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa
sio0: type 16550A
sio1 at 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa
sio1: type 16550A
sio2 at 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 12 flags 0x20000 on isa
sio2: type ST16650A
sio3 at 0x2e8-0x2ef irq 9 on isa
sio3: type 16550A
pca0 on motherboard
pca0: PC speaker audio driver
wdc0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14 flags 0xa0ffa0ff on isa
wdc0: unit 0 (wd0): <Maxtor 71336 AP>, DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-32
wd0: 1277MB (2615760 sectors), 2595 cyls, 16 heads, 63 S/T, 512 B/S
fdc0 at 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa
fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
fd0: 1.44MB 3.5in
npx0 on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
sb0 at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 on isa
snd0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.16>
sbxvi0 at ? drq 5 on isa
snd0: <SoundBlaster 16 4.16>
sbmidi0 at 0x330 on isa
snd0: <SoundBlaster MPU-401>
opl0 at 0x388 on isa
snd0: <Yamaha OPL3 FM>
awe0 at 0x620 on isa
awe0: <SoundBlaster EMU8000 MIDI (RAM4096k)>
joy0 at 0x201 on isa
joy0: joystick
Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround
ccd0-3: Concatenated disk drivers
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