atom feed12 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-hardwareRe: System hangs during heavy sequent...
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Ireneusz PlutaJun 25, 2010 4:57 am 
John BaldwinJun 25, 2010 5:41 am 
Ireneusz PlutaJun 25, 2010 8:51 am 
John BaldwinJun 25, 2010 10:03 am 
Ireneusz PlutaJun 25, 2010 1:59 pm 
John BaldwinJun 28, 2010 6:37 am 
Ireneusz PlutaJun 28, 2010 8:59 am 
John BaldwinJun 28, 2010 10:25 am 
Ireneusz PlutaJun 28, 2010 10:57 am 
John BaldwinJun 28, 2010 11:09 am 
Antony MawerJun 28, 2010 4:19 pm 
Ireneusz PlutaJun 30, 2010 3:08 am 
Subject:Re: System hangs during heavy sequential write to mfi device
From:Ireneusz Pluta (ipl@wp.pl)
Date:Jun 25, 2010 1:59:34 pm
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-hardware

John Baldwin pisze:

Hmmm. You might have a hardware issue. OTOH, you can try seeing if you have a BIOS option to disable PCIE error logging.

is it one of them?:

Assert NMI on SERR Assert NMI on PERR

(pdf page 109 of: -> http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/server/s5520hc/sb/e39529013_s5520hc_s5500hcv_s5520hct_tps_r1_9.pdf)

If so, turning it off may fix your hangs since as the act of writing the entry to the system event log can take several hundred milliseconds on some machines causing a hang of sorts. If you still get hangs with the option turned off then it seems you have some sort of hardware issue, possibly in the mfi(4) adapter or mainboard.