dump card state begins...

[Scott Long]

Jeffery G. Archambeau wrote:
> This particular box has been up and running without incident for a 
> couple of years, now. It's running 6.2-RELEASE-p7 with the on-board 
> Adaptec scsi controller.
> 
> This morning, the box was painfully slow. top shows that nothing's 
> hogging CPU or RAM. bandwidth monitors show that the box isn't being 
> attacked. Then dmesg showed this.... Help?
> 
> 
> ahd0: PCI error Interrupt
>  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dump Card State Begins <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

This might be something like dust build-up in the case or thermal creep
in the card and/or memory contacts, especially since it's been running
without incident for so long.  I'd open up the machine, vacuum it out,
reseat all of the cards and memory modules, and see if it happens again.

Scott