Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-(

[Mike Tancsa]

At 09:49 AM 1/9/2009, Guy Helmer wrote:

>>RAID controller with a pair of mirrored drives connected. Each one has
>>both ethernets connected, bundled using lagg and LACP.
>>
>>
>I can't tell whether my situation is related, but I am seeing 
>lockups on SMP Supermicro servers with both older (NetBurst-ish) and 
>current Xeon CPUs.  I have been dropping into the kernel debugger 
>and getting lock information and process backtraces, but so far 
>nothing has been conclusively identified.  I think the issue I'm 
>seeing was introduced sometime between October 2 and November 24 in 
>the RELENG_7 branch, and I suppose the next step is to do a binary 
>search for the offending change.

Are you using the same disk controller as Peter ?  Do both of you run 
with quotas on the file system ?  By lockup, do you mean it doesnt 
respond to the network either or just anything that needs disk IO ?

         ---Mike