Re: Linux 2.4.21-rc7

Andreas Haumer (andreas@xss.co.at)
Sat, 07 Jun 2003 17:46:57 +0200


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Hi!

Andreas Haumer wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>>Hallo,
>>
>>Now I really hope its the last one, all this rc's are making me mad.
>>
>
> ;-)
>
> So, here's a report on the more positive side...
>
I think, I have to take that back... :-((

> As I mentioned in some e-mails in the last few days,
> I'm currently testing an Asus AP1700-S5 server with
> a single Xeon 2.4GHz CPU (FSB533), 512MB RAM and
> 4x36GB U320SCSI drives (3 of them are assembled as RAID5),
> connected via GBit Ethernet to our internal network
>
I had this system running under heavy load for about 24 hours
without problems. I then stopped the stress testing, and had
several system freezes since then.

With system freeze I mean:

*) machine doesn't answer to ping, no reaction to console
keyboard, no message on the console screen, no message
in logfile, no oops, no noticeable system activity

I changed several BIOS settings (disabled hyperthreading,
disabled USB, disabled power management) and tried to run
the kernel with "acpi=off" and "noapic".
I also changed root disk, because I found a SCSI error
message in the logs once.

Nothing seems to help. The system just freezes under light
load at some time between 1 and 8 hours uptime.
It's really strange that it survived heavy load for
more than 24 hours in the first place.

I found some problem reports from several people,
which sound quite similar to the freeze I see here.
These people all had motherboards with serverworks
chipset, GBit ethernet and noticed similar lockups
or system freeze symptoms. From the reports I'm not
sure if the problems still persist or if they should
be solved now. Can someone please comment on that?

Here are some infos from the system again:

root@server:~ {505} $ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 118748 IO-APIC-edge timer
1: 274 IO-APIC-edge keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
4: 7011 IO-APIC-edge serial
9: 1181037 IO-APIC-level ioc0, ioc1
14: 1685 IO-APIC-level eth0
15: 2 IO-APIC-edge ide1
NMI: 0
LOC: 118700
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

root@server:~ {506} $ cat /proc/cmdline
auto BOOT_IMAGE=lx2421rc7 ro root=100 acpi=off

root@server:~ {507} $ uname -a
Linux server 2.4.21-rc7 #1 SMP Wed Jun 4 18:31:15 CEST 2003 i686 unknown

root@server:~ {508} $ lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
af_packet 13256 1 (autoclean)
e1000 50028 1 (autoclean)
ext3 60832 2 (autoclean)
jbd 40056 2 (autoclean) [ext3]
raid5 17704 1 (autoclean)
md 57472 2 (autoclean) [raid5]
xor 8868 0 (autoclean) [raid5]
unix 15664 38 (autoclean)
ext2 33440 4 (autoclean)
sd_mod 10652 18 (autoclean)
isense 32404 0 (autoclean) (unused)
mptctl 19116 0 (autoclean) (unused)
mptscsih 29696 9 (autoclean)
mptbase 32640 5 (autoclean) [isense mptctl mptscsih]
scsi_mod 95748 2 (autoclean) [sd_mod mptscsih]

root@server:~ {511} $ lspci -vvvv
00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-HE Host Bridge (rev 31)
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

00:00.1 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-HE Host Bridge
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

00:00.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20-HE Host Bridge
Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-

00:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corp. 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (63750ns min), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 14
Region 0: Memory at fd800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Region 2: I/O ports at d800 [size=64]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
Capabilities: [e4] PCI-X non-bridge device.
Command: DPERE- ERO+ RBC=0 OST=0
Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM- Capabilities: [f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000

00:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 8008
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (2000ns min), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
Region 0: Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: I/O ports at d400 [size=256]
Region 2: Memory at fb800000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Expansion ROM at febe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [5c] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-

00:0f.0 ISA bridge: ServerWorks CSB5 South Bridge (rev 93)
Subsystem: ServerWorks CSB5 South Bridge
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32

00:0f.1 IDE interface: ServerWorks CSB5 IDE Controller (rev 93) (prog-if 88 [Master SecP])
Subsystem: ServerWorks CSB5 IDE Controller
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32, cache line size 08
Region 0: I/O ports at <ignored>
Region 1: I/O ports at <ignored>
Region 2: I/O ports at <ignored>
Region 3: I/O ports at <ignored>
Region 4: I/O ports at a800 [size=16]

00:0f.3 Host bridge: ServerWorks GCLE Host Bridge
Subsystem: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0230
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 0

00:10.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0101 (rev 03)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr+ DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Capabilities: [60]
00:10.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0101 (rev 03)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Capabilities: [60]
00:11.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0101 (rev 03)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr+ DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Capabilities: [60]
00:11.2 Host bridge: ServerWorks: Unknown device 0101 (rev 03)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr+ DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
Capabilities: [60]
02:04.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 (rev 07)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 1000
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 72 (4250ns min, 4500ns max), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at fa000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Region 3: Memory at f9800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fe900000 [disabled] [size=1M]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [68]
02:04.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1030 (rev 07)
Subsystem: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic: Unknown device 1000
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 72 (4250ns min, 4500ns max), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at 9800 [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at f9000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Region 3: Memory at f8800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Expansion ROM at fe800000 [disabled] [size=1M]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1-,D2-,D3hot-,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Capabilities: [58] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000
Capabilities: [68]
03:02.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82544GC Gigabit Ethernet Controller (LOM) (rev 02)
Subsystem: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 110d
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32 (63750ns min), cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Region 2: Memory at f7800000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
Region 4: I/O ports at 9400 [size=32]
Expansion ROM at fe7e0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- DSI+ D1- D2- AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=1 PME-
Capabilities: [e4] PCI-X non-bridge device.
Command: DPERE- ERO+ RBC=0 OST=0
Status: Bus=0 Dev=0 Func=0 64bit- 133MHz- SCD- USC-, DC=simple, DMMRBC=0, DMOST=0, DMCRS=0, RSCEM- Capabilities: [f0] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
Address: 0000000000000000 Data: 0000

Any idea how I should proceed now?
I really could use some help here, I'm running out
of ideas... :-((

- - andreas

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Andreas Haumer | mailto:andreas@xss.co.at
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