some LORs + non-sleepable locks on recent stable i386 causing freezes

2007-08-26 Thread Volker
Hi! While fighting machine freezes with a recent kernel + world, I catched the following witness messages: (this one looks similar to LOR #199): lock order reversal: (sleepable after non-sleepable) 1st 0xc653aec0 ath0 (ath0) @ /usr/src/sys/modules/ath/../../dev/ath/if_ath.c:5210 2nd

Re: A little story of failed raid5 (3ware 8000 series)

2007-08-26 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Tom Judge wrote: Tom Samplonius wrote: The real solution is RAID scrubbing: a low level background process that reads every sector of every disk. All of the real RAID systems do this (usually scheduled weekly, or every other week). Most 3ware RAID card don't have this feature. So rather

Re: NZ Daylight Savings changes.

2007-08-26 Thread Edwin Groothuis
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 10:30:57AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 11:38:21AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: Would it be possible for a committer to take a look at: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=115697 There's only about a month or so before the

Re: twe on amd64 hangs

2007-08-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Daniel O'Connor wrote: I have grabbed a slab of info from DDB over Firewire (plus NMI switch :) which is attached. If anyone is searching the archives for this.. The work around is to disable APIC in the BIOS. (Like the 3ware KB suggests.. :) -- Daniel O'Connor software