On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 12:44:03AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: > Hi all, > > I just installed 6.2-RELEASE on a Supermicro 6013P-8 server, a dual > P4-Xeon 2.4ghz with 4GB ECC memory and an asr driven SCSI RAID > controller. > > It has been working OK (although I suspect the asr driven, being > giant-locked, is very inefficient) for a little while, but as I was > extracting a bunch of tarballs it paniced like so: > > spin lock smp rendezvous held by 0xc9d54600 for > 5 seconds > panic: spin lock held too long > cpuid = 0 > > I don't have a dump device (though I'm setting that up for the next > reboot). However, I have tried turning off HT, to see if that might > help. > > Does this look familiar to anyone? Or do I need to produce more data > if it happens again?
It can mean that something deadlocked. Turning on WITNESS may help to debug this, although it has a large performance impact. Kris
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