Re: kernel panic after 5.2 RELEASE --> 5.2.1, DELL PE2650, SCSI

From: Scott Long <scottl_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004 12:29:48 -0700 (MST)
On Fri, 20 Feb 2004, Lachlan O'Dea wrote:
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> On 18 Feb 2004, at 13:23, Scott Long wrote:
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> > Lachlan O'Dea wrote:
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> >> I managed to observe the system in top the second time this happened.
> >> One after another, each process freezes forever in getblk. Kind of
> >> scary to watch :-).
> >> With 5.2-RELEASE, I was seeing the blocked processes, but I don't
> >> recall seeing all of that console output before. I haven't actually
> >> seen experienced any problems with 5.2-RELEASE for a while, I just
> >> have to avoid long-running find(1) processes. (E.g. put
> >> daily_status_security_enable="NO" in periodic.conf).
> >
> > The same problem exists in 5.2.  I thought that I had fixed it, but
> > apparently not.
>
> I put your aacvar.h patch in yesterday (so I'm running the latest
> 5.2.1-RC2), and since then have experienced zero problems! The
> overnight security check ran flawlessly for the first time since...
> well, ever. Thanks so much.
>

Thanks for verifying it.  I think that I found the real problem, would you
be willing to do one more test?  Attached is the patch.  This involves
move AAC_MAX_FIB back to 512 and adding a line to aac.c.

Thanks!

Scott
Received on Fri Feb 20 2004 - 10:28:38 UTC

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