Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 23, Matthew Dillon wrote: > Oh, addendum... I didn't see this email regarding an actual panic. > > There are two problems here, one of which (the nbufkv lockup) should > be solved by my previous email. > > The second problem is this panic you are reporting, and I have no i

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
Oh, addendum... I didn't see this email regarding an actual panic. There are two problems here, one of which (the nbufkv lockup) should be solved by my previous email. The second problem is this panic you are reporting, and I have no idea what is causing it so this issue rema

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Matthew Dillon
Ok, this is NOT a softupdates *or* a vinum problem. This is a buffer cache problem. The problem is due to the large block size you are using when newfs'ing the filesystem coupled with problems in geteblk() which causes severe buffer cache KVM fragmentation. Softupdates exasp

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-23 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 15, Mathew Kanner wrote: > On Mar 15, Greg Lehey wrote: > > attention yet, but I do see that your problem relates to soft > > updates. It's not clear that the soft updates themselves are a cause > > of the problem, or just a facilitator, but it would be interesting to > I did try it

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 March 2000 at 16:29:03 -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote: > On Mar 15, Mathew Kanner wrote: >> On Mar 15, Soren Schmidt wrote: >>> Btw are you running the latest 4.0 or -current code ? there was >>> a time when we had problems with the HPT and Promise controllers ? >> >> The kernel

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-15 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 15, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Replying to myself. By now this is probably the wrong list. > > I'm not sure what to do anymore. I've tried to set the bios > > settings back to what I've had when it worked it it doesn't seem to > > want to go. I've set the drives for ata/66 and ata/33.

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-15 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 15, Mathew Kanner wrote: > On Mar 15, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > Btw are you running the latest 4.0 or -current code ? there was > > a time when we had problems with the HPT and Promise controllers ? > > The kernel in question was cvsup'ed right at the change. I'm > going to try 4.0 t

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-15 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Mar 15, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems Mathew Kanner wrote: > > disks on Promise controllers. I believe that the problems lies with > > multiple cards on the same interupt but what do I know -- execpt that > > the problem goes away when I disable most devices in the BIOS. > > The motherb

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-15 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mathew Kanner wrote: > Hi All, > I wanted to document my difficuties with Vinum and multiple > disks on Promise controllers. I believe that the problems lies with > multiple cards on the same interupt but what do I know -- execpt that > the problem goes away when I disable

ata + vinum problems

2000-03-14 Thread Mathew Kanner
Hi All, I wanted to document my difficuties with Vinum and multiple disks on Promise controllers. I believe that the problems lies with multiple cards on the same interupt but what do I know -- execpt that the problem goes away when I disable most devices in the BIOS. Th