Still replying to myself here:
>I shall downgrade one of these to 4.5 and see if this makes any
>difference.
The machine has been as stable as a rock, even with DMA on, since I
have downgraded it to 4.5.
It looks to me that 4.6 really broke something :-(
I shall try 4.7 of course, but
Hello,
About this problem, just to update it a bit:
- the 4.6.2. boxes with hw.ata.ata_dma="0" still hang about twice a month
(compared to sometimes more than once a day with DMA on)
- one of these has been cvsup'ed as of 18-Sep-2002, kernel recompiled.
It now identifies itself as "FreeBSD 4
Dinesh Nair wrote:
>>I see very common short-term hangs, a few seconds to less than a minute.
>>The mouse and keyboard stop responding, X stops updating and everything
>>just pauses, the whole system (including the network). It then starts
>
> i've seen this happen on an Asus 1400R 1U rackmount
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Frank Mayhar wrote:
> I see very common short-term hangs, a few seconds to less than a minute.
> The mouse and keyboard stop responding, X stops updating and everything
> just pauses, the whole system (including the network). It then starts
i've seen this happen on an Asus
On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Alain Fauconnet wrote:
> I am experiencing numerous hard hangs on a fairly busy FreeBSD 4.5 box
> (IMP web mail server with a lot of users). Sometimes 4 times in one
> hour. Reset button is the only solution, no Ctrl-Alt-Del, no
> Ctrl-Alt-Esc (DDB is compiled
