Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 10 Mar 1996 11:10:21 -0500 (EST) | From | Steve Thompson <> | Subject | Re: SCSI Kernel Problem - BAD |
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On Sat, 9 Mar 1996, Eric Youngdale wrote:
> >Agreed. I expect one of the reasons the abort/reset code has not been > >completely debugged is that in normal operation it gets invoked so rarely. If > >there is now a higher level bug leading to timeout problems, that would cause > >the abort/reset code to be used much more than ever before. It's only recently > >that I've come up with a way of reliably generating such problems.
Just to throw my two-cents in to the pot here, I have experienced similar random crashes myself. (In fact, I'm on-site now restoring some poor slob's home directory from tape since the fsck lost some stuff...)
This problem has been through the entire 1.3.x series, although I was experiencing some crashes (I'm sure) due to older versions of the aic7xxx driver. However, I have noted one factor that leads me to believe that there may be a race condition somewhere. I have two news servers running at two sites. One is a 486/66 32MB RAM, 2940W, Micropolis hdd (x2), ISA SMC Nic, etc. while the other is identical save that it is a P-100 and gets hit far-harder. The P-100 system has _yet_ to crash with timeout errors. It's being fed on a T1, to boot (The other system is on a 128K ISDN line).
Recently, I got an active terminator for the 486 and it's been OK for three days, but this does not necessarily explain some of the symptoms. One odd fact is that I have seen the "SCSI command aborting due to timeout for PID xxxxxx" where xxxxxx _is_ a six-digit number. I was under the impression that PIDs were 15 bits.
These problems that I'm experiencing _could_ be related to termination, but back in September, I was getting one-month uptimes with 1.3.9 when I was relying on the termination on the Micropolis drives and the 2940W. It's odd that the (three, actually) Pentium systems don't have the same problems that the 486 ones do. And I am using the same compiler (gcc 2.6.2, 4.6.27+, - -fno-strength-reduce) on all of them.
BTW, Micropolis drives suck if you bought them in the summer/fall.
I'll post more info if I have any more observations to share.
Steve Thompson, System Administrator & Professional Malcontent - -------------------------------------------------------------- "You're face alabaster/no cracks in the plaster/image carefully contrived." - Vital Sines
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