On 10/29/04 08:48 PM, Mike Tancsa sat at the `puter and typed:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:34:12 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions
> you wrote:
> >
> >The system is a fairly new (3 months old) Dell 8300; 3Ghz Pentium with
> >HT enabled. The disk controller is an Intel ICH5 SATA controller, as
> >mentioned above. The disk is a WDC WD1600JD-75HBB0 (Western Digital).
> >
> >Last time I asked about this, it was suggested that the drive might be
> >bad. The bios had a test that passed the drive. It was then
> >suggested that I use the WD test utility. I wasn't able to do this at
> >the time because I don't have a floppy on this system, and creating a
> >bootable CD from the image didn't work (I think it had a: hardcoded
> >in). Well, I finally broke down and hijacked the floppy from another
> >machine and ran the WD diags. Passed with flying colors, both the
> >quick test and the extended test. The drive is fine.
> >
>
> A useful program on RELENG_5 is
> /usr/ports/sysutils/smartmontools/
>
> have a quick look to see if there are any bad sectors on the drive.
> Run the daemon, and do a snapshot (smartctl -a ad0) before and after
> the crash and see if there is anything new recorded on the drive.
Will do, but I'm pretty sure at least one of the three utilities I've
already run would have found a bad sector . . .
> >So today I was building OpenOffice and everything came to a screeching
> >halt again. See the log entries above.
> >Same result the other poor schmuck got when he tried it. There was
> >also a suggestion that HT be turned off. Kinda defeats the whole
>
> HT works against you unless the scheduler is specifically aware of it,
> and right now the ULE scheduler is broken. For sure turn HT off in
> your BIOS and make sure you use SCHED_4BSD and NOT ULE
I am using SCHED_4BSD, not ULE.
> >Anyone have any other suggestions, info, whatever? I'll try turning
>
> What does your kernel config look like ?
Attached below . . .
Thanks for your response.
Lou
#
# KEYSLAPPER custom kernel config - Adapted from FreeBSD 5.2.1 GENERIC
machine i386
cpu I686_CPU
ident GENERIC
options SCHED_4BSD #4BSD scheduler
options INET #InterNETworking
options INET6 #IPv6 communications protocols
options FFS #Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES #Enable FFS soft updates support
options UFS_ACL #Support for access control lists
options UFS_DIRHASH #Improve performance on big directories
options MD_ROOT #MD is a potential root device
options NFSCLIENT #Network Filesystem Client
options NFSSERVER #Network Filesystem Server
options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT
options MSDOSFS #MSDOS Filesystem
options CD9660 #ISO 9660 Filesystem
options PROCFS #Process filesystem (requires PSEUDOFS)
options PSEUDOFS #Pseudo-filesystem framework
options COMPAT_43 #Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!]
options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 #Compatible with FreeBSD4
options SCSI_DELAY=15000 #Delay (in ms) before probing SCSI
options KTRACE #ktrace(1) support
options SYSVSHM #SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG #SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM #SYSV-style semaphores
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING #Posix P1003_1B real-time extensions
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in debug
# output. Adds ~128k to driver.
options AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in debug
# output. Adds ~215k to driver.
options IPFIREWALL
options IPDIVERT
options PFIL_HOOKS # pfil(9) framework
options VESA # VESA support
options INVARIANT_SUPPORT #Extra sanity checks of internal structures,
required by INVARIANTS
options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel
device apic # I/O APIC
device isa
device eisa
device pci
# Floppy drives - None present
# device fdc
# ATA and ATAPI devices
device ata
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
device ataraid # ATA RAID drives
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
device atapist # ATAPI tape drives
options ATA_STATIC_ID #Static device numbering
# SCSI peripherals
device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
device ch # SCSI media changers
device da # Direct Access (disks)
device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc)
device cd # CD
device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI access)
device ses # SCSI Environmental Services (and SAF-TE)
# atkbdc0 controls both the keyboard and the PS/2 mouse
device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller
device atkbd # AT keyboard
device psm # PS/2 mouse
device vga # VGA video card driver
device splash # Splash screen and screen saver support
# syscons is the default console driver, resembling an SCO console
device sc
device agp # support several AGP chipsets
# Floating point support - do not disable.
device npx
# Power management support (see NOTES for more options)
#device apm
# Add suspend/resume support for the i8254.
device pmtimer
# PCCARD (PCMCIA) support
# Pcmcia and cardbus bridge support
device cbb # cardbus (yenta) bridge
device pccard # PC Card (16-bit) bus
device cardbus # CardBus (32-bit) bus
# Serial (COM) ports
device sio # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports
# Parallel port
device ppc
device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required)
device lpt # Printer
device plip # TCP/IP over parallel
device ppi # Parallel port interface device
# If you've got a "dumb" serial or parallel PCI card that is
# supported by the puc(4) glue driver, uncomment the following
# line to enable it (connects to the sio and/or ppc drivers):
#device puc
# PCI Ethernet NICs.
# device de # DEC/Intel DC21x4x (``Tulip'')
# device em # Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit Ethernet Card
# device txp # 3Com 3cR990 (``Typhoon'')
# device vx # 3Com 3c590, 3c595 (``Vortex'')
# PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code.
# NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs!
device miibus # MII bus support
device fxp # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
device re # RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S
device rl # RealTek 8129/8139
device xl # 3Com 3c90x (``Boomerang'', ``Cyclone'')
# Wireless NIC cards
device wlan # 802.11 support
device an # Aironet 4500/4800 802.11 wireless NICs.
device awi # BayStack 660 and others
device wi # WaveLAN/Intersil/Symbol 802.11 wireless NICs.
# Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate.
device random # Entropy device
device loop # Network loopback
device ether # Ethernet support
device sl # Kernel SLIP
device ppp # Kernel PPP
device tun # Packet tunnel.
device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device md # Memory "disks"
device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
device faith # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)
# The `bpf' device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter.
# Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this!
device bpf # Berkeley packet filter
# USB support
device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface
device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface
device usb # USB Bus (required)
device ugen # Generic
device uhid # "Human Interface Devices"
device ukbd # Keyboard
device ulpt # Printer
device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da
device ums # Mouse
device urio # Diamond Rio 500 MP3 player
device uscanner # Scanners
# USB Ethernet, requires mii
device aue # ADMtek USB ethernet
device axe # ASIX Electronics USB ethernet
device cue # CATC USB ethernet
device kue # Kawasaki LSI USB ethernet
device pcm # Onboard sound.
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