FreeBSD 5.3 freezes under heavy hdd load

From: cyb (_at_gmx.net)
Date: 03/08/05

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Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 08:28:32 +0100

    Hello,

     from time to time my FreeBSD freezes under heavy hdd load and only a
    hard reset will bring it back to life with fsck complaining about
    'Softupdate Inconsistencies'.

    I had this behaviour on 5.3-RELEASE, 5.3-RELEASE-p5 and now i have it on
    5.4-PRERELEASE. I am using a custom kernel with SMP enabled on a P4
    3.2GHz for hyperthreading. One hdd is a SATA drive and it acts fine. The
    other hdd however is an ATA133 drive and i suspect it to be the problem,
    since freezes only occur when it is busy (eg. copying much data from a
    DVD/HDD to it or compiling a port). Whenever the system freezes there is
    no warning or log entry at all.

    I used 'smartmontools' to check the drive, but there was not found
    anything and the hdd appeared to be fully operational.

    I have 1GB (2x512MB PC3200) in the box and memtest86 was ok too.

    Could the freezes come from a faulty IDE hdd (which would mean that I
    better get rid of it), or are there other possiblities.

    Thank you,
    Andreas 

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