Re: System crashes under heavy disk i/o

2009-12-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:57:30 Erik Norgaard wrote: Mel Flynn wrote: Turn down operating mode via atacontrol. If using dump(8) use the cache feature and/or do the backup from live disk, so no other services are running and disk isn't accessed other then by dump. Thanks, is there a

System crashes under heavy disk i/o

2009-12-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have had this problem for a while, both on 7.x and now with 8.0: I have a: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Dec 11 11:53:19 CET 2009 norga...@localhost:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: VIA Nehemiah (800.04-MHz 686-class CPU)

Re: System crashes under heavy disk i/o

2009-12-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Dec 11 11:53:19 CET 2009 norga...@localhost:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: VIA Nehemiah (800.04-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls

Re: System crashes under heavy disk i/o

2009-12-17 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:26:12 Erik Norgaard wrote: My two questions: - is there any utility that I can use monitor the system to see what's going on, when or why? gstat(8) Also, perhaps syslog to a different machine or nfs mount /var/log if you feel you're missing a log message due

Re: System crashes under heavy disk i/o

2009-12-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Dec 17, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Erik Norgaard wrote: FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 #0: Fri Dec 11 11:53:19 CET 2009 norga...@localhost:/usr/local/obj/usr/local/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: VIA Nehemiah (800.04-MHz 686-class CPU)

Re: System crashes under heavy disk i/o

2009-12-17 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mel Flynn wrote: Turn down operating mode via atacontrol. If using dump(8) use the cache feature and/or do the backup from live disk, so no other services are running and disk isn't accessed other then by dump. Thanks, is there a way to set UDMA mode at boot? BR, Erik -- Erik Nørgaard Ph: