I got the following while trying to rsync a large number of files over the network to a firewire HD (FAT32 FS) on a 6.0-BETA1 system. Aug 9 12:48:17 inchoate kernel: firewire0: split transaction timeout dst=0xffc0 tl=0x36 state=3 Aug 9 12:48:17 inchoate kernel: sbp_orb_pointer_callback: xfer->resp = 60 Aug 9 12:48:17 inchoate kernel: fw_rcv: unknown response WRES(2) src=0xffc0 tl=0x36 rt=1 data=0x84513864 Aug 9 12:48:17 inchoate kernel: try ad-hoc work around!! Aug 9 12:48:17 inchoate kernel: no use... Aug 9 12:48:19 inchoate kernel: firewire0: split transaction timeout dst=0xffc0 tl=0x8 state=3 Aug 9 12:48:19 inchoate kernel: sbp_orb_pointer_callback: xfer->resp = 60 Aug 9 12:48:19 inchoate kernel: fw_rcv: unknown response WRES(2) src=0xffc0 tl=0x8 rt=1 data=0x84518aad Aug 9 12:48:19 inchoate kernel: try ad-hoc work around!! Aug 9 12:48:19 inchoate kernel: no use... da0 at sbp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <Oxford 911D 0037> Fixed Simplified Direct Access SCSI-4 device da0: 50.000MB/s transfers da0: 114473MB (234441648 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 14593C) My interactive performance has gone down the tube too :( here is a systat -vmstat snapshot 2 users Load 13.14 7.58 4.75 Aug 9 16:06 Mem:KB REAL VIRTUAL VN PAGER SWAP PAGER Tot Share Tot Share Free in out in out Act 273168 43380 749572 105288 20760 count 1 All 497356 51660 17265484 156920 pages 2 zfod Interrupts Proc:r p d s w Csw Trp Sys Int Sof Flt cow 1514 total 1 1134 1505 44 2374 2005 240 1 69176 wire 1007 0: clk 273368 act 1: atkb 92.4%Sys 1.5%Intr 2.3%User 0.0%Nice 3.8%Idl 137800 inact 3: sio1 | | | | | | | | | | 19780 cache 4: sio0 ==============================================+> 980 free 7: ppc0 daefr 129 8: rtc Namei Name-cache Dir-cache prcfr 9: pcm0 Calls hits % hits % react 350 11: nvi 2276 2189 96 pdwak 12: psm pdpgs 13: npx Disks ad0 da0 cd0 pass0 pass1 1 intrn 28 14: ata KB/t 4.07 4.00 0.00 0.00 0.00 61024 buf 15: ata tps 28 70 0 0 0 268 dirtybuf MB/s 0.11 0.27 0.00 0.00 0.00 35360 desiredvnodes % busy 69 32 0 0 0 10098 numvnodes 6637 freevnodes IRQ 11 is my "super fun IRQ" with 90% of my hardware attached.. I am copying about 17000 45k files. The controller is the one built into my Dell Inspiron 8600 -> Aug 9 11:29:24 inchoate kernel: fwohci0: <1394 Open Host Controller Interface> mem 0xfaffd800-0xfaffdfff,0xfaff8000-0xfaffbfff irq 11 at device 1.1 on pci2 Aug 9 11:29:24 inchoate kernel: fwohci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] Aug 9 11:29:24 inchoate kernel: fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0) Aug 9 11:29:24 inchoate kernel: fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. Aug 9 11:29:24 inchoate kernel: fwohci0: EUI64 43:4f:c0:00:08:17:a4:38 Aug 9 11:29:24 inchoate kernel: fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. Aug 9 11:29:24 inchoate kernel: fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. When I tried this earlier with 65000 much larger files I managed to get rsync to use 125% of the CPU (no HT/SMP here).. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20050809/45ede0c9/attachment.bin