Re: -current lockups

2001-08-23 Thread Vincent Poy
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 31-Jul-01 Vincent Poy wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 30-Jul-01 Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:38:47 MST, David O'Brien wrote: However, those boxes were panicing often before I made that statement.

Re: -current lockups

2001-08-01 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:06:49 -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: Yeah, that's the weird part... I thought adding a DDB_UNATTENDED as a option would atleast make it reboot or something... For the record, DDB_UNATTENDED is mostly pointless. It just sets the default value of

Re: -current lockups

2001-08-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Sheldon Hearn wrote: : : :On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 12:06:49 -1000, Vincent Poy wrote: : : Yeah, that's the weird part... I thought adding a DDB_UNATTENDED : as a option would atleast make it reboot or something... : :For the record, DDB_UNATTENDED is mostly pointless. It

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-31 Thread Vincent Poy
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 31-Jul-01 Vincent Poy wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 30-Jul-01 Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:38:47 MST, David O'Brien wrote: However, those boxes were panicing often before I made that statement.

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-31 Thread John Baldwin
On 31-Jul-01 Vincent Poy wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: root@pele [9:29pm][/usr/temp] Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: lock order reversal Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: lock order reversal Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: 1st 0xd92fea9c

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-31 Thread Vincent Poy
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 31-Jul-01 Vincent Poy wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: root@pele [9:29pm][/usr/temp] Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: lock order reversal Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: lock order reversal Jul 28

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-31 Thread John Baldwin
On 31-Jul-01 Vincent Poy wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 31-Jul-01 Vincent Poy wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: root@pele [9:29pm][/usr/temp] Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: lock order reversal Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel:

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-31 Thread Vincent Poy
On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 31-Jul-01 Vincent Poy wrote: On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: root@pele [9:29pm][/usr/temp] Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: lock order reversal Jul 28 21:29:40 pele /boot/kernel/kernel: lock order reversal Jul 28

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-31 Thread Vincent Poy
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 30-Jul-01 Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:38:47 MST, David O'Brien wrote: However, those boxes were panicing often before I made that statement. So I still believe current is now in better shape than it was in June. I'll be

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-31 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 16:52:27 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: I'll be a lot happier when I can enabled DDB_UNATTENDED and do whatever it is that causes my panic of the day and actually get a crashdump instead of panic: witness_restore: lock (sleep mutex) Giant not locked Right! We

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-31 Thread John Baldwin
On 31-Jul-01 Vincent Poy wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, John Baldwin wrote: On 30-Jul-01 Sheldon Hearn wrote: On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:38:47 MST, David O'Brien wrote: However, those boxes were panicing often before I made that statement. So I still believe current is now in better

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-30 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 07:00:11PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: For the past 2 or 3 weeks my -current system has been experiencing temporary lockups, usually under disk load. The entire system will hang for around 20-30 seconds, during which time absolutely no network/IO/keyboard/mouse

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-30 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 09:28:09 MST, John Baldwin wrote: panic: witness_restore: lock (sleep mutex) Giant not locked This is a different one. Is this during the dump itself? That I can try to work on. (Basically, I need to make witness just stop doing all of its various checks if

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-30 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:26:55 MST, David O'Brien wrote: I am also experiencing total wedging on disk activity (vi foo, was one) on a SCSI system since I updated late last week. My May 7th kernel was rock solid. Was this before or after you posted publically that -CURRENT seemed stable and

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-30 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 30 Jul 2001 07:38:47 MST, David O'Brien wrote: However, those boxes were panicing often before I made that statement. So I still believe current is now in better shape than it was in June. I'll be a lot happier when I can enabled DDB_UNATTENDED and do whatever it is that causes my

-current lockups

2001-07-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
Hi all, For the past 2 or 3 weeks my -current system has been experiencing temporary lockups, usually under disk load. The entire system will hang for around 20-30 seconds, during which time absolutely no network/IO/keyboard/mouse activity is accepted. Usually, after 20-30 seconds the system

Re: -current lockups

2001-07-29 Thread Matthew Jacob
This has happened on and off for various platforms since SMPNG. On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: Hi all, For the past 2 or 3 weeks my -current system has been experiencing temporary lockups, usually under disk load. The entire system will hang for around 20-30 seconds, during

Re: current lockups

2000-03-18 Thread Arun Sharma
Compiling Mozilla with make -j 2 got -current to lock up, twice in succession. I'm running a fairly recent snapshot (a week or two old) on a Dual celeron box (BP6) with UDMA66 enabled. The kernel had DDB enabled. I was running X, but I didn't see any signs of the kernel attempting to get

Re: current lockups

2000-03-09 Thread Peter Dufault
On 2000-Mar-09 10:05:21 +1100, Peter Dufault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's no difference between rtprio and P1003.1B scheduling other than the name. rtprio is the same as P1003.1B "SCHED_RR". I wasn't aware of that. I'd like to remove the rtprio call from ntpd. I think we ought to

Re: current lockups

2000-03-07 Thread Dave Boers
It is rumoured that Vallo Kallaste had the courage to say: I had a lockup yesterday while stress-testing new SMP machine. Tyan motherboard with Intel GX chipset, 256MB of memory, one 20GB IBM UDMA66 disk, but running at UDMA33. All power management disabled completely in the BIOS. I was doing

Re: current lockups

2000-03-07 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-Mar-07 06:29:17 +1100, Dave Boers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is rumoured that Arun Sharma had the courage to say: Compiling Mozilla with make -j 2 got -current to lock up, twice in succession. I'm running a fairly recent snapshot (a week or two old) on a Dual celeron box (BP6) with

Re: current lockups

2000-03-07 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On 2000-Mar-07 06:29:17 +1100, Dave Boers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :It is rumoured that Arun Sharma had the courage to say: : Compiling Mozilla with make -j 2 got -current to lock up, twice in : succession. I'm running a fairly recent snapshot (a week or two old) : on a Dual celeron box (BP6)

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:27:18PM +0100, Dave Boers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in the fix, of course :-) But where to start looking? I've had three lockups so far (none before january 2000) but I didn't find anything that reliably triggered it. I had a lockup yesterday while

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Matthew Sean Thyer
I'll second this email... My computer had been stable all winter (with setiathome runnning full time) but suddenly come the Australian summer it started freezing. Not panicing, just totally freezing under load. I could reproduce it by trying to build the whole of KDE and each time it was a

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Dave Boers
It is rumoured that Arun Sharma had the courage to say: Compiling Mozilla with make -j 2 got -current to lock up, twice in succession. I'm running a fairly recent snapshot (a week or two old) on a Dual celeron box (BP6) with UDMA66 enabled. Finally. I've been complaining about this on several

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Arun Sharma
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:27:18PM +0100, Dave Boers wrote: Has this been fixed ? Is anyone interested in investigating ? I'll post more info if I find anything. I'm interested in the fix, of course :-) But where to start looking? I've had three lockups so far (none before january 2000)

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Dave Boers
It is rumoured that Arun Sharma had the courage to say: The cooling theory sounds the most plausible so far. I'm not over clocking my CPUs (Celeron 366s) and have appropriate cooling installed. But the machine is kept in a small room, with a bunch of other machines and gets a bit warm at

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread sthaug
The cooling theory sounds the most plausible so far. I'm not over clocking my CPUs (Celeron 366s) and have appropriate cooling installed. But the machine is kept in a small room, with a bunch of other machines and gets a bit warm at times. I have seen a couple of suggestions that this may

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Dan Papasian
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:27:18PM +0100, Dave Boers wrote: on a Dual celeron box (BP6) with UDMA66 enabled. Finally. I've been complaining about this on several occasions. I'm also running UDMA66 and Dual Celeron BP6. No overclocking. Can you people reproduce this on a kernel without SMP

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Marius Strom
I'm willing to bet a nickel (perhaps more) you people are running non-IBM UDMA66 drives on that BP6. Seems that most UDMA66 drives are not actually UDMA66 compliant, and they only drives that have been reported successful on the BP6 are IBM. Try taking your HD's off the UDMA66 controller and

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Dave Boers
It is rumoured that Marius Strom had the courage to say: I'm willing to bet a nickel (perhaps more) you people are running non-IBM UDMA66 drives on that BP6. Seems that most UDMA66 drives are not actually UDMA66 compliant, and they only drives that have been reported successful on the BP6

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Marius Strom
Dave, Well, there was a discussion a few weeks back with Soren Schmidt and a few others. I believe the conclusion was made that this occurred with most WD drives (interesting about the WD == IBM part, I did notice he mentioned that in -current a few weeks ago as well). I had a WD20 gig that

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Dave Boers
It is rumoured that Marius Strom had the courage to say: Well, there was a discussion a few weeks back with Soren Schmidt and a few others. I believe the conclusion was made that this occurred with most WD drives (interesting about the WD == IBM part, I did notice he mentioned that in

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Marius Strom
Interesting. I'll check my own archives of -current to see if I can find the discussion. I always thought that the "Lost Disk Contact" messages were due to the disk recalibrating itself after six days of continued use. After Soren increased the timeout from 5 to 10 seconds, I never saw the

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-Mar-06 21:39:11 +1100, Matthew Sean Thyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer had been stable all winter (with setiathome runnning full time) but suddenly come the Australian summer it started freezing. And it's been the coldest summer for something like 5 years... How about these

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2000-Mar-07 06:29:17 +1100, Dave Boers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is rumoured that Arun Sharma had the courage to say: Compiling Mozilla with make -j 2 got -current to lock up, twice in succession. I'm running a fairly recent snapshot (a week or two old) on a Dual celeron box (BP6) with

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Jeremy writes : How about these Peltier (sp ?) cooling devices I have heard about ? A Peltier cell is just a semiconductor heat pump. It effectively just reduces the junction-to-heatsink thermal resistance, allowing you (in theory) to use a less efficient

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Dave Boers
It is rumoured that Peter Jeremy had the courage to say: Note that ntpd will use rtprio if the Posix P1003.1b extensions aren't enabled in the kernel. (These were enabled by default in GENERIC on i386 in mid-January). If you have the new ntpd (rather than xntpd) and are running a kernel

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Chris Piazza
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 11:59:21PM +0100, Dave Boers wrote: It is rumoured that Peter Jeremy had the courage to say: Note that ntpd will use rtprio if the Posix P1003.1b extensions aren't enabled in the kernel. (These were enabled by default in GENERIC on i386 in mid-January). If you

Re: current lockups

2000-03-06 Thread Thimble Smith
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 03:46:25PM -0600, Marius Strom wrote: Unfortunately, the discussions occurred while the mailing list archive was kaput (WD Drive on UDMA66? =]) so it's not archived where I can find it. I think this is the thread you're looking for:

Re: current lockups

2000-03-05 Thread Dan Papasian
1. Is your computer overclocked? 2. Is the computer totally frozen? (i.e. scroll lock doesn't turn the light on) 3. Does similar load crash the box as well? (try make -j2 world) 4. Does it freeze in the same spot? 5. Is the computer not responding to pings? If you've answered yes to a good

current lockups

2000-03-04 Thread Arun Sharma
Compiling Mozilla with make -j 2 got -current to lock up, twice in succession. I'm running a fairly recent snapshot (a week or two old) on a Dual celeron box (BP6) with UDMA66 enabled. The kernel had DDB enabled. I was running X, but I didn't see any signs of the kernel attempting to get into