Re: Soft-updates feedback
Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would stick to Intel PCI chipsets. Not sure if your motherboard supports or not do you have the latest microcode for your VIA chipset? Cheers -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
RE: Soft-updates feedback
FWIW, I have a VIA chipset in my machine that is running -STABLE and I don't have such problems. I don't know if I have the same chipset as you tho, as I'm not at the machine to check my dmesg. I put an decent about of stress on the drives and don't seem to have any lockups at all, slowdowns yes, lockups no. I have the VIA MVP3 chipset, and my 2 of my drives are in DMA mode and one is in PIO mode. -Chris -Original Message- From: Amancio Hasty [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 3:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Julian Elischer; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Soft-updates feedback Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would stick to Intel PCI chipsets. Not sure if your motherboard supports or not do you have the latest microcode for your VIA chipset? Cheers -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Soft-updates feedback
On 20-Jul-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: Have you checked your syslog to see if you are getting disk errors? Also, I noticed that you have a VIA chipset and I know that at least with the Bt848 driver they have caused havoc. I would stick to Intel PCI chipsets. Not sure if your motherboard supports or not do you have the latest microcode for your VIA chipset? Huh? Excerpt from my dmesg: Probing for devices on PCI bus 0: chip0: VIA 82C597 (Apollo VP3) system controller rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0 chip1: VIA 82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3) PCI-PCI bridge rev 0x00 on pci0.1.0 chip2: VIA 82C586 PCI-ISA bridge rev 0x41 on pci0.7.0 ide_pci0: VIA 82C586x (Apollo) Bus-master IDE controller rev 0x06 on pci0.7.1 chip3: VIA 82C586B ACPI interface rev 0x10 on pci0.7.3 bktr0: BrookTree 848 rev 0x01 int a irq 9 on pci0.9.0 bti2c0: bt848 Hard/Soft I2C controller iicbb0: I2C generic bit-banging driver on bti2c0 iicbus0: Philips I2C bus on iicbb0 master-only smbus0: System Management Bus on bti2c0 Hauppauge WinCast/TV, Philips NTSC tuner, dbx stereo. What types of havoc should I be looking for? Haven't had any since December when I bought the new motherboard. Oh, and here's uname -a: FreeBSD john.baldwin.cx 3.2-STABLE FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE #3: Thu Jul 1 21:08:59 EDT 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/source/src/sys/compile/JOHN i386 More info available on request. Cheers -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/ PGP Key: http://members.freedomnet.com/~jbaldwin/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Soft-updates feedback
Glad that is working out for you. I am not into PCI low level bugs they are very difficult to indentify and in certain cases impossible to fix. To give you a little hint: 1.6825 May 1999 Roger Hardiman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Due to differences in PCI bus implementations from various motherboard chipset manufactuers, the Bt878/Bt879 has 3 PCI bus compatibility modes. These are NORMAL PCI 2.1 for proper PCI 2.1 compatible chipsets. INTEL 430 FXfor the Intel 430 FX chipset. SIS VIA CHIPSET for certain SiS and VIA chipsets. Older Intel and non-Intel chipsets may also benefit from either 430_FX or SIS/VIA mode. Usually, the kind of problems that I have heard of is systems hanging hard for instance with the Bt848 driver. The bottom line is that if it is working for you great. -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Soft-updates feedback
About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies. The problem is: when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on secondary master, CD on primary slave), any active disk-using program (starting Netscape, starting EXMH) causes all other programs literally to stop for several seconds (well, 20-30 seconds is quite often!). Turning soft-updates off causes this nastiness to disappear, but also slows down disk-active processess. Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Soft-updates feedback
while this is happening, what does 'iostat 1' and 'vmstat 1' tell you? On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Alex Povolotsky wrote: About a week ago, I've posted a message here and didn't got positive replies. The problem is: when I use soft-updates on IDE disks (disk on primary master, disk on secondary master, CD on primary slave), any active disk-using program (starting Netscape, starting EXMH) causes all other programs literally to stop for several seconds (well, 20-30 seconds is quite often!). Turning soft-updates off causes this nastiness to disappear, but also slows down disk-active processess. Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
