Re: Filesystem problem

On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 11:36, Kevin Bockman wrote:
> Hi. I have been experencing some filesystem problems
> for the last month or so. I was running 4.8-STABLE and
> updated to 5.1-RELEASE-p2.  While I was running 4.8
> and I tried to run a command that required hard disk
> activity, the process would 'hang' and I would no
> longer be able to ssh or telnet in.  I would get stuck
> after typing in my login.

Have you concidered it might be related to your hard drive, and or
controller?  It seems to be that you had problems with 4.8 and 5.1,
since you low level formatted the drive i'm assuming that it is IDE.

Chances are if you waited long enough you might find some really
unique/cool error messages posting to the console.  It sounds like for
whatever reason you're hard drive is timing out on responses.

That or it could be your controller, at any rate.  Maybe you should look
into those.

> Running 5.1 is a different story.  I did a low level
> format of the drive then I did a clean
> install of 5.1-RELEASE and cvsup'd to -p2.  Every time
> I do this, it's great for a day or so then it acts up.
>  Before after it started, even if I rebooted it would
> immediately start up.  On 5.1, it is only hanging for
> that process and everything else is fine.  I can still
> login, webserver responds, etc.
> 
> Here is a little info:
> 
> FreeBSD devel.neoninternet.net 5.1-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD
> 5.1-RELEASE-p2 #0: Sat Aug 23 20:12:41 PDT 2003    
> kevin_at_devel.ph.cox.net:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/SLURPEE
>  i386
> 
> CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2600+ (2086.51-MHz 686-class
> CPU)
> real memory  = 1073676288 (1023 MB)
> ad0: 117246MB <Maxtor 6Y120P0> [238216/16/63] at
> ata0-master UDMA133
> 
> root   1173  0.0  0.1  1436  916  p3  D+    6:38PM  
> 0:00.00 man vmstat
> root    784  0.0  0.1   752  636  d0  D     4:34PM  
> 0:00.02 make all DIRPRFX=i386/libi386/
> root    847  0.0  0.0   312  212  d0  D     4:34PM  
> 0:00.00  (cc)
> root    848  0.0  0.3  4104 3488  d0  D     4:34PM  
> 0:00.01  (cc1)
> root    849  0.0  0.1   928  668  d0  D     4:34PM  
> 0:00.00 /usr/bin/as -o comconsole.o -
> 
> last pid:  1252;  load averages:  0.00,  0.00,  0.00  
>                                 up 0+02:37:22 
> 19:04:48
> 64 processes:  1 running, 63 sleeping
> CPU states:  0.0% user,  0.0% nice,  0.0% system, 
> 0.0% interrupt,  100% idle
> Mem: 34M Active, 23M Inact, 38M Wired, 204K Cache, 22M
> Buf, 906M Free
> Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free
> 
> devel# vmstat
>  procs      memory      page                    disks 
>    faults      cpu
>  r b w     avm    fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr ad0 da0
>   in   sy  cs us sy id
>  1 7 0  144612 928056   16   0   0   0   9   0   0   0
>  331    0 254  0  0 100
> 
> Anyone have any suggestions?  I can not control-C out
> of 'man vmstat'.  While doing 'make' in
> /usr/src/sys/boot it was hanging on as, when I
> restarted it, it got to i386/libi386 and will not do
> anything else.  I'm running that through serial
> console, it let me ^C out of that.  I tried going into
> single user mode and running umount, now it just sits
> there and I can't ^C.  I have no ideas, this was all
> working yesterday!! :-)
> 
> Any ideas on what else to check or other helpful hints
> would help bunches.
> 
> Sorry for the cross-posts.  Just not sure where to go
> with this one.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kevin

as i said, seems like the problem is the same it just gets a little farther in with 5.1