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Date:      Mon, 20 Sep 2004 17:16:30 +0100
From:      Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Brief freezes with -current as of early last week
Message-ID:  <20040920161628.GG30307@clan.nothing-going-on.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040920160019.GA3403@VARK.MIT.EDU>
References:  <20040920100038.GA30307@clan.nothing-going-on.org> <20040920160019.GA3403@VARK.MIT.EDU>

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On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 12:00:19PM -0400, David Schultz wrote:
> This sounds like an I/O hang.  I've been having similar problems
> related to WRITE_DMA and READ_DMA timeouts from the ata driver in
> the last week or so, as discussed last week on this list.  Are you
> seeing these messages from the kernel? =20

Like these?

ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3D47240127
ad0: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but good status
ad1: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=3D165370263
ad1: WARNING - READ_DMA no interrupt but good status

ad0 is a 2 year old 40GB disk, ad1 is 1 week old 120GB disk.

> Julian suggested disabling
> preemption, which I haven't tried yet, but other people report
> limited success.

I'm not running a kernel with 'options PREEMPTION' compiled in...

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