Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-11 Thread David Jackson
David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 11, 2010, at 3:05 PM, David Jackson wrote: [ ... ] I seem to have also discovered that the lockup problems are not entirely due to USB issues. Many of them were being caused by an apparent problem with the swap system. I have two swaps, a file backed swap and a partition swap on the

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 5:05 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.comwrote: David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-11 Thread Al Plant
David Jackson wrote: David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk,

Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread David Jackson
I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system lockup often for

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 8, 2010, at 8:52 AM, David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Monday 08 March 2010 16:52:08 David Jackson wrote: Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? You'll probably get a better response by asking on

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Chris Whitehouse
David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

2010-03-08 Thread Al Plant
Bruce Cran wrote: On Monday 08 March 2010 16:52:08 David Jackson wrote: Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? You'll probably get a better