ew Dillon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Mike Silbersack"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "ian j
hart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Matthew Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROT
It seems Nils Holland wrote:
> root@poison> pciconf -r -b pci0:0:0 0x0:0xff
Thanks! this was a kernel without the corruption fix, and it shows
that you need it, the MWQ bug has been fixed in your BIOS...
I have a new improved patch in the works that covers more chipset
comboes, it'll go into -cu
Matthew Dillon wrote:
>
> :...
> :> >
> :> > There is also the "only supports 16MxN RAM" feature.
> :>
> :> Maybe I should toss in that I've had spontaneous reboots during heavy
> :> IDE activity both on my desktop (VIA 82C686) and my laptop (Intel
> :> 82443BX). And before that, random disk cor
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Søren Schmidt wrote:
> I know that change as well, but so far I havn't been able to verify
> that it does what it intends to do, VIA's docs are very vague on this.
>
> There is alot about this on the net, but *lots* of it are just notes
> scribbled together by nerds^H^H^H^H^
Note that we aren't complaining about your patch or anything, you
are simply the closest thing we have to a VIA chip expert right now :-)
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<[EMAIL P
It seems Mike Silbersack wrote:
> Agreed, it looks like the "MWQ bug" isn't addressed by soren's patch. The
> decription at
> http://www.networking.tzo.com/net/software/readme/faqvl019.htm
> doesn't give enough info to patch it, but this post to the linux-kernel
> mailing list seems to shed more
On Fri, 28 Dec 2001, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Ok, I have more information on Nils problem. First of all, Soren's
> patch greatly reduced the rate of corruption. It took 25 loops of
> Nils 'cp' test to generate the corruption.
>
> However, Soren's patch did not fiix the corruptio
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Ok, I have more information on Nils problem. First of all, Soren's
> patch greatly reduced the rate of corruption. It took 25 loops of
> Nils 'cp' test to generate the corruption.
Hmm, did the second change I posted change anything ?
> However,
:...
:> >
:> > There is also the "only supports 16MxN RAM" feature.
:>
:> Maybe I should toss in that I've had spontaneous reboots during heavy
:> IDE activity both on my desktop (VIA 82C686) and my laptop (Intel
:> 82443BX). And before that, random disk corruption during heavy SCSI
:> activit
This is great news! I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that Nils can't
reproduce the crash any more with Soren's fix.
Just to let you all know, Nils has been working his ass off helping me
track his crash down. I've been pulling my hair out... I gave him patch
after patch to
:
::
::> atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on
::
::You have the VIA 82c686b southbridge chip which is known to cause severe
::data corruption problems if the BIOS does not setup the northbidge
::chip correctly. Please check with your board vendor if they have a
::new updated BIOS that f
:
:It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote:
:> > So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy
:> > IDE workloads: Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot
:> > output.
:
:> atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on
:
:You have the VIA 82c686b southbridge chip which is known t
It seems Matthew Gilbert wrote:
> > So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy
> > IDE workloads: Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot
> > output.
> atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 7.1 on
You have the VIA 82c686b southbridge chip which is known to cause sev
> So, general question to everyone having crashes during heavy
> IDE workloads: Please post your /var/run/dmesg.boot
> output.
This is after a second reboot (that is why the disks come up clean). -Matt
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Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Well, I'm close to being stuck folks. I've looked at 5 of Brady's
> core dumps and one of Nils and it appears to be semi-random
> corruption of structures that simply cannot be otherwise corrupted
> in the wa
On Thu, 20 Dec 2001, Brady Montz wrote:
>However, being a recent convert to BSD, I don't know how to turn of
>DMA. How do I?
Welcome. =)
You'll probably want to read sysctl(8) and sysctl.conf(5) to get
familiar with how BSDs sysctl interfaces work. You'll be particular
interested in the hw.at
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Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> :I induced the crash by running "make clean; make buildworld" in one
> :infinite loop and "portsdb -Uu" in another. That string occurs in a
> :bunch of makefiles in /usr/ports. Some of the occurences in the core
> :are clearl
:I induced the crash by running "make clean; make buildworld" in one
:infinite loop and "portsdb -Uu" in another. That string occurs in a
:bunch of makefiles in /usr/ports. Some of the occurences in the core
:are clearly from them, but many of them are surrounded by binary
:data. I recursively gre
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Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 2001-Dec-20 13:47:16 -0800, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >The string 'pre-fetch' is sitting right smack in the middle of the
> >VM_PAGE!!!. The entire vm_page is corrupt, though the vm_page's
> >
On 2001-Dec-20 13:47:16 -0800, Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The string 'pre-fetch' is sitting right smack in the middle of the
>VM_PAGE!!!. The entire vm_page is corrupt, though the vm_page's
>surrounding it appear to be ok.
>
>When I look for 'pre-fetch' in the
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:33:19PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:21:15 -0700
> >From: Chad David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> >I still agree. My -current machines run find, and I refuse to run -stable on
> >an SMP machine.
>
> For whatever it may be worth, my "build mach
>Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 14:21:15 -0700
>From: Chad David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>I still agree. My -current machines run find, and I refuse to run -stable on
>an SMP machine.
For whatever it may be worth, my "build machine" (which is one of the
machines on which I track both -STABLE and -CURRENT d
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 04:14:08PM -0800, Brady Montz wrote:
>
> Here's an update ...
>
> I'm fairly certain there's a kernel bug at work here. Last night I rebooted
> to linux (which is on the same disk), and ran batch compiles all
> night long without any troubles. In comparision, I can't com
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:33:14PM -0800, Brady Montz wrote:
> Richard Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:59:13AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> > > I am experiencing the same crashes on my new machine (ATA100 IDE
> > > drive): they appeared when I noticed tha
ian j hart wrote:
>
> ian j hart wrote:
> >
> > "Chad R. Larson" wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:33:15PM -0800, Brady Montz wrote:
> > > > Yeah, I'm using soft updates too. My crashes are generally the
> > > > same as Richards - no panic, just a freeze. Except my screen
> > > > do
ian j hart wrote:
>
> "Chad R. Larson" wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:33:15PM -0800, Brady Montz wrote:
> > > Yeah, I'm using soft updates too. My crashes are generally the
> > > same as Richards - no panic, just a freeze. Except my screen
> > > doesn't go blank.
> >
> > For what it'
"Chad R. Larson" wrote:
>
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:33:15PM -0800, Brady Montz wrote:
> > Yeah, I'm using soft updates too. My crashes are generally the
> > same as Richards - no panic, just a freeze. Except my screen
> > doesn't go blank.
>
> For what it's worth, I'm using soft updates on
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 01:33:15PM -0800, Brady Montz wrote:
> Yeah, I'm using soft updates too. My crashes are generally the
> same as Richards - no panic, just a freeze. Except my screen
> doesn't go blank.
For what it's worth, I'm using soft updates on a web server that gets
steady if not he
Richard Nyberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:59:13AM +0100, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
> > I am experiencing the same crashes on my new machine (ATA100 IDE
> > drive): they appeared when I noticed that I had forgotten to use
> > soft-updates. After I have turned them on
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