Subject: Re: resets under high load
To: Stephen Degler <stephen@degler.net>
From: Andreas Kahari <ak+netbsd@freeshell.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 03/10/2004 17:01:44
On Wed, Mar 10, 2004 at 11:47:02AM -0500, Stephen Degler wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 10 March 2004 11:30 am, Andreas Kahari wrote:
>
> > Hmmm... I might have run into this one as well actually. I
> > first thought it was a power cut, but it was too short to be
> > that and nothing else in the apartment registred it. I was
> > compiling three packages from pkgsrc and listening to a CD at
> > the time.
> >
> > I don't really feel encouraged to try to provoke this to
> > happen again... fsck reported a lot of (non-disasterous) disk
> > inconsistencies.
> >
>
> I haven't had serious file system damage due to this, even though I have
> softdeps enabled. I'm guessing that these are mostly the recently created .o
> files and such from the compilation.
>
> If you could try to reproduce it again I'd be most greatful. Also I'll
> send-pr the issue once I'm sure that its not just me who is experiencing it.
I'll hook up a serial console later tonight and see if I can
reproduce it with a ddd-and-distribution-building loop as you
suggested earlier. It might be interesting to note that I have
a K8T800-based motherboard (GA-K8VNXP).
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