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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!mips!mips!darwin.sura.net!jvnc.net!yale.edu!ira.uka.de!math.fu-berlin.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!cs.tu-berlin.de!hektor!tmh From: tmh@cs.tu-berlin.de (Thomas Hoberg) Subject: Re: Hang up on heavy disk load (Re: Adaptec SCSI bug?) In-Reply-To: shin@nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp's message of Mon, 3 Aug 1992 14:59:57 GMT Message-ID: <TMH.92Aug3185956@hektor.cs.tu-berlin.de> Sender: news@cs.tu-berlin.de Organization: Technical University of Berlin, Germany References: <1992Jul30.210037.9265@ninja.zso.dec.com> <1992Jul31.002259.29940@gateway.novell.com> <1992Aug3.150008.188@cotton.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 3 Aug 1992 17:00:13 GMT Lines: 24 In article <1992Aug3.150008.188@cotton.nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp> shin@nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Shin YOSHIMURA) writes: >>>>> On 31 Jul 92 09:22:59 JST, terry@npd.Novell.COM (Terry Lambert) said: terry> I noticed this as well with a WD1007 EDSI controller, only much more terry> frequently (like the disk locked up during install). I think this has to terry> be either a more general problem in UFS, or in the paging code, which is how terry> UFS does it's disk writes. If anyone has a soloution, I am sure you would terry> have both Michael and my thanks. Does anyone fix this problem? I am annoyed by this problem. I cannot load X11R5 sources from remote sparcstation. I don't have a fix either, but I also think it's not a driver bug. When loading megabytes of software from tape I try to do periodic syncs on another VT and that seems to lessen the likelyhood of a hang. Also when it does hang, I find that syncs are still getting through, so that fsck rarely reports errors on the reboot (and thanks God for that, fsck takes awhile and once is enough for my nerves). --- Thomas M. Hoberg | INTERNET: tmh@cs.tu-berlin.de 1000 Berlin 41 | BITNET: tmh@tub.bitnet Wielandstr. 4 | Germany | Phone: +49-30-851 50 21 (Voice)