On 28-May-01 Richard Hodges wrote:
> I have been having a problem on one of my machines, and it seems
> to be associated with medium/heavy IO loads.
>
> After some period of time, usually an hour or two, the system will
> appear to stop cold dead. A trace with DDB shows that the last
> function is doreti. Above that is the DDB call stuff.
>
> Once, the trace was simply doreti, other times it had the stack
> of the ata and network drivers. Here are some values from one
> that might be useful:
>
> cpl = 6714ba (3, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15 active, right?)
> ipending = 401420 (nothing pending, right?)
> astpending = 3
> in_vm86call = 0
> intr_nesting_level = 2
If astpending is set, we keep looping on the x86 in doreti. It looks like
astpending might not be getting cleared or some such.
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