As promised, and as my server is up again, here is the dmesg. Now, why is rtorrent freezing the server... not a clue
OpenBSD 4.2 (GENERIC.RAID) #1: Sun Jan 6 22:08:19 CET 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.RAID cpu0: Intel Pentium III ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 795 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE real mem = 1073311744 (1023MB) avail mem = 1029783552 (982MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 12/31/99, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xeca00, SMBIOS rev. 2.3 @ 0xf2000 (41 entries) bios0: vendor Compaq version "D05/F05 System ROM" date 11/15/2002 bios0: Compaq ProLiant DL320 pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.1 @ 0xeca00/0x3600 pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev 1.0 @ 0xfaca0/160 (8 entries) pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:15:0 ("ServerWorks OSB4" rev 0x00) pcibios0: PCI bus #0 is the last bus bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0x8000 0xc8000/0x8000 0xd0000/0x3400 0xe8000/0x8000! acpi at mainbus0 not configured cpu0 at mainbus0 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "ServerWorks CNB20LE Host" rev 0x05 pchb1 at pci0 dev 0 function 1 "ServerWorks CNB20LE Host" rev 0x05 pci1 at pchb1 bus 1 pciide0 at pci1 dev 1 function 0 "Promise PDC20375" rev 0x02: DMA wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ST380811AS> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using BIOS timings, Ultra-DMA mode 6 wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <ST380811AS> wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76319MB, 156301488 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:0): using BIOS timings, Ultra-DMA mode 6 pciide0: using irq 3 for native-PCI interrupt siop0 at pci1 dev 2 function 0 "Symbios Logic 53c895A" rev 0x01: irq 3, using 8K of on-board RAM scsibus0 at siop0: 16 targets fxp0 at pci1 dev 3 function 0 "Intel 8255x" rev 0x08, i82559: irq 11, address 00:50:8b:e8:56:04 inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 4 fxp1 at pci1 dev 4 function 0 "Intel 8255x" rev 0x08, i82559: irq 11, address 00:50:8b:e8:56:05 inphy1 at fxp1 phy 1: i82555 10/100 PHY, rev. 4 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "ATI Rage XL" rev 0x27 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) "Compaq Netelligent ASMC" rev 0x00 at pci0 dev 3 function 0 not configured piixpm0 at pci0 dev 15 function 0 "ServerWorks OSB4" rev 0x51: polling iic0 at piixpm0 "adm1022" at iic0 addr 0x2c not configured iic0: addr 0x2c 13=3a 14=4d 15=02 17=46 18=64 19=00 20=80 26=30 27=1b 2b=7f 2c=80 37=48 38=c9 39=35 3a=c9 3e=41 3f=c9 40=2b 41=10 43=11 44=0c 47=50 4a=01 4c=10 93=3a 94=4d 95=02 97=46 98=64 99=00 a0=80 a6=30 a7=1b ab=7f ac=80 b7=48 b8=c9 b9=35 ba=c9 be=41 bf=c9 c0=2b c1=10 c3=11 c4=0c c7=50 ca=01 cc=10: adm1022 pciide1 at pci0 dev 15 function 1 "ServerWorks OSB4 IDE" rev 0x00: DMA atapiscsi0 at pciide1 channel 1 drive 0 scsibus1 at atapiscsi0: 2 targets cd0 at scsibus1 targ 0 lun 0: <COMPAQ, CD-ROM CRN-8241B, 2.23> SCSI0 5/cdrom removable cd0(pciide1:1:0): using PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2 ohci0 at pci0 dev 15 function 2 "ServerWorks OSB4/CSB5 USB" rev 0x04: irq 5, version 1.0, legacy support usb0 at ohci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0 at usb0: ServerWorks OHCI root hub, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 isa0 at mainbus0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec biomask f7ed netmask ffed ttymask ffef pctr: 686-class user-level performance counters enabled mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support Kernelized RAIDframe activated cd0(atapiscsi0:0:0): Check Condition (error 0x70) on opcode 0x0 SENSE KEY: Not Ready ASC/ASCQ: Medium Not Present raid0 at root: (RAID Level 1) total number of sectors is 156091648 (76216 MB) as root dkcsum: wd0 matches BIOS drive 0x80 dkcsum: wd1 matches BIOS drive 0x81