system reboot because of hdd

[Chris Rees]

2009/5/29 claudiu vasadi <claudiu.vasadi at gmail.com>:
> Hello ppl.
>
>
> Straight to business.
>
> FreeBSD 7.1-stable
>
> 2 hdd. 1 is ad2 and the other is ad6. ad2 is the BSD hdd, and ad6 is just
> for data (movies, music, etc). ad2 is a 80GB Samsung P-ata133 and ad6 is a
> WD 250GB S-ata2.
>
> While running a process that was trying to create a 25GB file on a 30 GB
> partition on the second hdd (ad2) I experienced ssh outage. Everything came
> back to life after a short perioud of ~2 minutes. So, again I started the
> process. This time, the outage was about 5 minutes. I was busy with
> something else and did not run the process again. 2 minutes after that i get
> a call from a customer that some thing is not working. so I check it and
> surprize, the OS rebooted itself.
>
> so, went to the logs and this is what i found out (/var/log/messages):
>
> May 29 22:26:30 da1 kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (1 retry
> left) LBA=419468447
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: ad6: TIMEOUT - WRITE_DMA48 retrying (0 retries
> left) LBA=419468447
> May 29 22:26:41 da1 kernel: ad6: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA48 timed out
> LBA=419468447
> May 29 22:26:41 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1f[WRITE(offset=19447808,
> length=16384)]error = 5
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: ad6: FAILURE - device detached
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: subdisk6: detached
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: ad6: detached
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1f[WRITE(offset=36683776,
> length=16384)]error = 6
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1f[WRITE(offset=16908288,
> length=16384)]error = 6
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1f[WRITE(offset=36700160,
> length=16384)]error = 6
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: g_vfs_done():ad6s1f[WRITE(offset=114688,
> length=16384)]error = 6
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: cpuid = 0
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: Uptime: 45d22h15m29s
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: Physical memory: 1003 MB
> May 29 22:26:35 da1 kernel: Dumping 232 MB: 217 201 185 169 153 137 121 105
> 89 73 57 41 25 9
>
>
>
>
> and (/var/log/all.log):
>
>
> May 29 22:54:49 da1 fsck: /dev/ad6s1f: 6 files, 12 used, 17132271 free (31
> frags, 2141530 blocks, 0.0% fragmentation)
>
>
> exacly where the file was created. but it was 1 not 6 files that i wanted to
> create but 1.
>
>
>
>
> the process that I run is "dsmfmt" of TSM server for Sun. it creates a file
> volume of a specific size for use in tsm server itself for defining storage
> pool capacity.
>
> so, I know that the hdd was to the limit. It could be a hardware issue I
> know, but right now dnt have resources to try somewere else so I'm asking a
> oppinion. Has anyone dealt with this situation before ? OS reboot because of
> high hdd load ?

How much RAM have you got?

Chris


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