Page fault, GEOM problem??

Johan Ström johan at stromnet.org
Tue Nov 29 20:11:41 GMT 2005


On 19 nov 2005, at 00.30, Michal Mertl wrote:
> Parv wrote:
>> in message <1132353600.903.19.camel at genius1.i.cz>, wrote Michal
>> Mertl thusly...
>>>
>>> Johan Ström wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 18 nov 2005, at 18.43, Xin LI wrote:
>> ...
>>>> So, it seems it does run savecore after running dumpon and
>>>> mounting  disks etc... Is that wrong?
>>>
>>> No, this is normal. When you run savecore you need to have mounted
>>> filesystems. In order to mount the filesystems they may have to be
>>> checked. The fsck program requires big amount of memory to check
>>> larger filesystems so the swap has to be enabled. Core dumps are
>>> written to the dump device (swap) from the end whereas the swap is
>>> normally used from the beginning (or the other way around).
>>> Therefore there's quite a big chance that, even when the swap has
>>> to be used for fsck, the core dump is intact and usable.
>>
>> Is there any formula to calculate the size of swap to account for
>> fsck & core dump while assigning swap size (short of having two swap
>> partitions)?
>
> None that I know of. Someone posted to some FreeBSD mailing list some
> figures about the fsck consumption of memory. I really don't remember,
> but I think it was something like some MBs of memory per quite a  
> lot of
> GB of file system space. E.g. that the fsck on "normally" sized file
> systems (e.g. at most a couple of hundred GB) doesn't normally cosume
> all of "normally" sized memory (>=256MB) and thus doesn't need to  
> swap.
>
>>> If the usage of the swap file by fsck corrupts the core dump you
>>> may start after next crash in single user mode and run the
>>> commands manually (without enabling swap).
>>
>> Is that after kernel (re)boots?  And would the commands to be
>> executed be savecore followed by swapon?
>
> If the dump got corrupted by fsck, you would have to wait for another
> crash and dump. Then you would reboot and start in single user mode,
> repair the file systems without swap enabled (fsck would crash on the
> large file system(s)) and then run savecore. Swapon is then  
> irrelevant,
> you probably don't need swap for savecore. After running savecore you
> can start normally multi user (exit from the single user shell).
>
> I didn't try all of that but I believe it should work.
>
> Michal
>

I just got another coredump, hadn't had one since the first one. From  
messages:

Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: subdisk10: detached
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: ad10: detached
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: unknown: TIMEOUT - READ_DMA48 retrying  
(1 retry left) LBA=426562704
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider  
ad10s1 disconnected.
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=134356992, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=134373376, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=134389760, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=134438912, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=268591104, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=268607488, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=268623872, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=5966307328, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=5967650816, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=5968355328, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=5968584704, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=5969715200, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=5971795968, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=5972697088, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=16063848960, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=16063865344, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=16063881728, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=16063914496, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=16064324096, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=16064340480, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=16064373248, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=16064471552, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18761523712, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18762850816, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18762867200, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18762883584, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18762899968, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18762949120, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18762965504, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18846032384, length=131072)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18846228992, length=131072)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18846441984, length=131072)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=18846638592, length=131072)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=20110369280, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=20111680000, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=20111696384, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=21073961472, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=21073977856, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=21844845056, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=23003161088, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=27434574336, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=32635757056, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=33406444032, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=34369610240, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[READ(offset=34555535872, length=131072)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=36874609152, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:36:54 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Request failed (error=6).  
ad10s1[WRITE(offset=37645722112, length=16384)]
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel:
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel:
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in  
kernel mode
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fault virtual address      = 0x49
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fault code         = supervisor read,  
page not present
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: instruction pointer        =  
0x20:0xc064cbfa
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: stack pointer              =  
0x28:0xd44a8c9c
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: frame pointer              =  
0x28:0xd44a8c9c
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: code segment               = base 0x0,  
limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: processor eflags   = interrupt enabled,  
resume, IOPL = 0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: current process            = 35 (swi4:  
clock sio)
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: trap number                = 12
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: panic: page fault
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Uptime: 10d9h28m1s
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD  
Project.
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986,  
1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: The Regents of the University of  
California. All rights reserved.
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Sat Nov 19  
03:22:49 CET 2005
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: johan at elfi.stromnet.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/ 
sys/GENERIC
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ACPI APIC Table: <ASUS   A7V333  >
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz  
quality 0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1900+ (1601.96- 
MHz 686-class CPU)
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Origin = "AuthenticAMD"  Id = 0x662   
Stepping = 2
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel:  
Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE, 
MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: AMD Features=0xc0480800<SYSCALL,MP,MMX+, 
3DNow+,3DNow>
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: real memory  = 536854528 (511 MB)
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: avail memory = 516001792 (492 MB)
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ioapic0 <Version 0.2> irqs 0-23 on  
motherboard
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: npx0: [FAST]
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: acpi0: <ASUS A7V333> on motherboard
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pci_link0: <ACPI PCI Link LNKA> irq 11  
on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pci_link1: <ACPI PCI Link LNKB> irq 10  
on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pci_link2: <ACPI PCI Link LNKC> irq 0 on  
acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pci_link3: <ACPI PCI Link LNKD> irq 12  
on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pci_link4: <ACPI PCI Link LNKE> irq 5 on  
acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency  
3579545 Hz quality 1000
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: acpi_timer0: <32-bit timer at  
3.579545MHz> port 0xe408-0xe40b on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port  
0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: agp0: <VIA 8367 (KT266/KY266x/KT333)  
host to PCI bridge> mem 0xfe000000-0xfe7fffff at device 0.0 on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device  
1.0 on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 5.0  
(no driver attached)
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwohci0: <Texas Instruments TSB43AB21/A/ 
AI/A-EP> mem 0xfd000000-0xfd0007ff,0xfc800000-0xfc803fff irq 17 at  
device 7.0 on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1)
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwohci0: EUI64 00:e0:18:00:00:02:7e:fe
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 1 ports.
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on  
fwohci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address:  
02:e0:18:02:7e:fe
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:e0:18:02:7e:fe
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on  
firewire0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1,  
CYCLEMASTER mode
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable  
IRM = 0 (me)
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port  
0xd400-0xd41f irq 19 at device 9.0 on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb0: USB revision 1.0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev  
1.00/1.00, addr 1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self  
powered
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhci1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port  
0xd000-0xd01f irq 16 at device 9.1 on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb1: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb1: USB revision 1.0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev  
1.00/1.00, addr 1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self  
powered
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ehci0: <VIA VT6202 USB 2.0 controller>  
mem 0xfc000000-0xfc0000ff irq 17 at device 9.2 on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb2: EHCI version 0.95
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb2: companion controllers, 2 ports  
each: usb0 usb1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb2: <VIA VT6202 USB 2.0 controller> on  
ehci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb2: USB revision 2.0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhub2: VIA EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev  
2.00/1.00, addr 1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self  
powered
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: atapci0: <Promise PDC40518 SATA150  
controller> port 0xb800-0xb87f,0xb400-0xb4ff mem  
0xfb800000-0xfb800fff,0xfb000000-0xfb01ffff irq
19 at device 12.0 on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ata2: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ata3: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ata4: <ATA channel 2> on atapci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ata5: <ATA channel 3> on atapci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL>  
port 0xb000-0xb07f mem 0xfa800000-0xfa80007f irq 17 at device 14.0 on  
pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: xlphy0: <3c905C 10/100 internal PHY> on  
miibus0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: xlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX,  
100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:76:ef:c6:36
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pci0: <display, VGA> at device 15.0 (no  
driver attached)
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 17.0  
on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: atapci1: <VIA 8233A UDMA133 controller>  
port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xa400-0xa40f at device 17.1  
on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhci2: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port  
0xa000-0xa01f at device 17.2 on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb3: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci2
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb3: USB revision 1.0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhub3: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev  
1.00/1.00, addr 1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self  
powered
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhci3: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port  
0x9800-0x981f irq 21 at device 17.3 on pci0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhci3: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb4: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> on uhci3
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: usb4: USB revision 1.0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhub4: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev  
1.00/1.00, addr 1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: uhub4: 2 ports with 2 removable, self  
powered
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ppc0: <ECP parallel printer port> port  
0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 drq 3 on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/ 
NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/9 bytes threshold
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port  
0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: sio0: type 16550A
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: sio1: <16550A-compatible COM port> port  
0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: sio1: type 16550A
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)>  
port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: kbd0 at atkbd0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: pmtimer0 on isa0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: orm0: <ISA Option ROMs> at iomem  
0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xccfff,0xd0000-0xd07ff on isa0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on  
isa0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port  
0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Timecounter "TSC" frequency 1601962271  
Hz quality 800
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ad0: 2441MB <WDC AC22500L 32.41N35> at  
ata0-master UDMA33
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: acd0: CDROM <CD-ROM CDU701-F/1.0q> at  
ata1-master PIO4
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ad6: 286188MB <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC1G10>  
at ata3-master SATA150
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: ad10: 286188MB <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC1G10>  
at ata5-master SATA150
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1 created  
(id=4118114647).
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider  
ad6s1 detected.
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider  
ad10s1 detected.
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Root mount waiting for: GMIRROR
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider  
ad6s1 activated.
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider  
mirror/gm0s1 launched.
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: rebuilding  
provider ad10s1.
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ 
mirror/gm0s1a
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: WARNING: /tmp was not properly dismounted
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: WARNING: /usr was not properly dismounted
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: /usr: mount pending error: blocks 23884  
files 1
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: WARNING: /var was not properly dismounted
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi kernel: /var: mount pending error: blocks 56  
files 5
Nov 29 20:46:09 elfi savecore: no dumps found


No core saved?... I'm fairly sure there was a dump device set..  
Should be.. From dmesg -a:

...
ad0: 2441MB <WDC AC22500L 32.41N35> at ata0-master UDMA33
acd0: CDROM <CD-ROM CDU701-F/1.0q> at ata1-master PIO4
ad6: 286188MB <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC1G10> at ata3-master SATA150
ad10: 286188MB <Maxtor 7L300S0 BANC1G10> at ata5-master SATA150
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1 created (id=4118114647).
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider ad6s1 detected.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider ad10s1 detected.
Root mount waiting for: GMIRROR
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider ad6s1 activated.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: provider mirror/gm0s1 launched.
GEOM_MIRROR: Device gm0s1: rebuilding provider ad10s1.
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/mirror/gm0s1a
WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
Loading configuration files.
kernel dumps on /dev/ad0s1b
Entropy harvesting:
interrupts
ethernet
point_to_point
kickstart
.

Havent touched the dumpon stuff since last boot, so the dump device  
should be active...

I tried to force savecore:

root at elfi:/var/log$ savecore -f /var/crash/ /dev/ad0s1b
savecore: unable to force dump - bad magic
savecore: no dumps found

Some info about from sysclt (dont know if there is anything relevant)):

root at elfi:/var/log$ sysctl -a|grep dump
kern.sugid_coredump: 0
kern.coredump: 1
kern.nodump_coredump: 0
<6>pid 78189 (lookupd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
<6>pid 3790 (yafc), uid 10001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
<6>pid 67414 (lookupd), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
<118>kernel dumps on /dev/ad0s1b
<118>Checking for core dump on /dev/ad0s1b...
<118>savecore: no dumps found
<118>Nov 29 21:01:04 elfi savecore: unable to force dump - bad magic
debug.elf32_legacy_coredump: 0
hw.an.an_dump: off

Can somebody give me a clue about what to do?

Btw, the disk speed problem still persists, can't get over ~20Mb/s,  
even on a raw disk (remove a disk from gmirror and mount /dev/ad6s1f  
for example).
Can there be problems with the mobo/controllercard? Or is it more  
likely to be driver realted? Promise lists my motherboard (asus  
a7v333) in their manual for the controllercard (promise sataII 150 TX4).

Thanks

Johan Ström
johan at stromnet.org
http://www.stromnet.org/



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