Re: Problems with hangs under NetBSD-5.x

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 10:06:48AM +1200, Mark Davies wrote:
> On Saturday 01 August 2009 06:47:17 Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > Could all of you seeing these hangs give the following details:
> > - are you all on i386, or is it also seen with amd64 ?
> 
> i386
> 
> > - what disk subsystem are you using ? is these some raidframe volume ?
> 
> mfi (Dell PERC 5/i) and amr (PERC 4/Di) configured for hardware raid.
> 
> > - what mount options (quota, softdep, log, ...)
> 
> log

It turns out my issue seems to be caused by a hardware bug.
In my case the kernel was completely dead exept I still could
enter ddb from serial console. Disabling hyperthreading seems to have
helped in my case.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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