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Date:      Fri, 13 Feb 2009 07:26:29 -0600
From:      Guy Helmer <ghelmer@palisadesys.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(
Message-ID:  <49957505.7090405@palisadesys.com>
In-Reply-To: <49946769.1040009@palisadesys.com>
References:  <E1LL6dg-0007CN-DI@dilbert.ticketswitch.com>	<49676406.9050902@palisadesys.com> <49946769.1040009@palisadesys.com>

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Guy Helmer wrote:
> FWIW, I think I have tracked down the changes just prior to 
> 7.1-RELEASE that is causing my Supermicro dual Xeon machines to 
> wedge.  I did the binary search between 2008-10-02 and 2008-11-24 
> without reproducing any lockups, and then I went on to search between 
> 2008-11-24 and 2009-01-04.  An SMP kernel build from 2008-12-22 
> (r186409) sources was stable for over two weeks; a kernel built from 
> 2008-12-29 (r186590) sources wedged in under 24 hours under moderate 
> load.
>
> It appears that the significant changes between r186409 and r186590 
> were r186552 (delphij - reverted ATA changes) and r186535/r186534 
> (delphij - reverted bce changes).  My machines don't have bce 
> interfaces, so I suspect the ATA changes.
>
Never mind.  I'm stepping back through older kernels and finding that 
the hangs are now occurring in kernels that had seemed to be stable...

Guy




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