Stress testing and TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA

Anthony Chavez acc at anthonychavez.org
Tue Sep 6 18:00:18 PDT 2005


On Fri, 26 Aug 2005 03:21:35 -0600 Anthony Chavez <acc at anthonychavez.org> wrote:

> My question is simply this: is the fact that I received 4 TIMEOUT
> warnings in the space of roughly 2 weeks significant cause for concern?

Apparently, the fact that the stress tool produced so few warnings may
have given me a false sense of security.  I'm being treated to the
following messages (81 in total) today, after 8 days uptime:

Sep  6 11:35:27 mybox kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=8348191
...
Sep  6 18:59:09 mybox kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=8348383
Sep  6 19:04:58 mybox kernel: ad0: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA retrying (2 retries left) LBA=61749183

The READ_DMA timeouts are happening very infrequently, but it's worth
mentioning that I'm seeing them now in addition.

This is quite disturbing, particularly when the machine in question is
*in*production.*

Has anyone who has experienced this pain found solace in 5-STABLE's ATA
drivers?

dmesg below.

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FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p6 #0: Fri Aug 26 02:23:19 MDT 2005
    root at mybox:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   2400   >
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz (2392.25-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0xf29  Stepping = 9
  Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
real memory  = 266813440 (254 MB)
avail memory = 251445248 (239 MB)
ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 1
ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard
npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
acpi0: <DELL 2400   > on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
agp0: <Intel 82845G (845G GMCH) SVGA controller> mem 0xfeb80000-0xfebfffff,0xe8000000-0xefffffff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0
agp0: detected 892k stolen memory
agp0: aperture size is 128M
uhci0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> port 0xff80-0xff9f irq 16 at device 29.0 on pci0
usb0: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A> on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> port 0xff60-0xff7f irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0
usb1: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B> on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> port 0xff40-0xff5f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0
usb2: <Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C> on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 29.7 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0
pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
pci1: <simple comms, generic modem> at device 5.0 (no driver attached)
xl0: <3Com 3c900-TPO Etherlink XL> port 0xddc0-0xddff irq 18 at device 6.0 on pci1
xl0: selecting 10baseT transceiver, half duplex
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:97:74:a8:6d
bfe0: <Broadcom BCM4401 Fast Ethernet> mem 0xfe9fe000-0xfe9fffff irq 17 at device 9.0 on pci1
miibus0: <MII bus> on bfe0
bmtphy0: <BCM4401 10/100baseTX PHY> on miibus0
bmtphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
bfe0: Ethernet address: 00:12:3f:d4:21:75
isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
atapci0: <Intel ICH4 UDMA100 controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf,0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 18 at device 31.1 on pci0
ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 31.5 (no driver attached)
fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f7,0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x64,0x60 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port 0x778-0x77f,0x378-0x37f irq 7 on acpi0
ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem 0xcd000-0xcffff,0xcb800-0xccfff,0xc0000-0xcb7ff on isa0
pmtimer0 on isa0
sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounter "TSC" frequency 2392248384 Hz quality 800
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ad0: 76293MB <SAMSUNG SP0802N TK100-28> at ata0-master UDMA100
acd0: CDROM <GCR-8483B/1.07> at ata1-master UDMA33
ATA PseudoRAID loaded
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
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