On Thursday 11 January 2007 16:13, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 01:40:48PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 10:36, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > > Yes, I know 4.11 is EOL'd at the end of this month, but hopefully > > > someone can shed some light on this problem anyways. I simply don't > > > have the knowledge of what's going on on a low-level to determine > > > the cause. > > > > > > I do have serial console on this box, and after enabling some > > > debugging for the ahc(4) driver a few months back, was able to > > > get something intelligent out of the system regarding SCBs this > > > morning. This may not be useful (or the cause), though. I also > > > cannot enable drop-to-DDB-on-serial-break because our Portmaster 2 > > > has been known to send a serial break on rare occasion. :-( > > > > > > Every so often (sometimes hours, sometimes months -- usually months), > > > the 4.11 box we have "locks up" in the sense that both NICs on the > > > box stop working, and the SCSI controller also appears hung. This > > > problem has existed for a couple years; it's not specific to 4.11 > > > (versus 4.10 or 4.9). > > > > Can you try a RELENG_4 kernel? I know of at least one fix (in > > sys/i386/isa/clock.c) since 4.11 was released that might help you out. > > John, > > Thanks for the tip. > > The kernel I'm using was built on the following date (thus, src-all > for release=cvs tag=RELENG_4 was cvsup'd about an hour prior to this): > > FreeBSD pentarou.parodius.com 4.11-STABLE FreeBSD 4.11-STABLE #0: Sun May 28 12:02:42 PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PENTAROU i386 > > Which revision of sys/i386/isa/clock.c might have fixed the problem? > I only see 1 commit between May 28th 2006 and present:
It was the 1.149.2.7, so you probably have that already. I wasn't sure when you said "4.11" kernel if you meant RELENG_4_11 or RELENG_4. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
