Subject: Re: lockup using 1.6.1, cgd(4), raid(4)
To: None <TeCeEm@gmx.de>
From: Paul Ripke <stix@stix.homeunix.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 11/04/2003 22:57:30
On Tuesday, Nov 4, 2003, at 11:49 Australia/Sydney, TeCeEm@gmx.de wrote:

> Sorry to reply to myself.
>
> Today I built a filesystem on raid0 without using cgd0. After filling 
> about
> 5GB the system hung in the same way as described earlier. It's 
> apparently not
> cgd's fault. I'm kinda lost since I read that people were using 
> RAIDframe in
> busier setups successfully.

I'm guessing you may have tripped over PR kern/20191... If you can get
into ddb or debug a crash dump, check uvmexp.free and uvmexp.paging. If
free is low (maybe <= 5) and paging > 0, you've probably run into this
problem.

Cheers,
--
Paul Ripke
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