From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 18:45:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CDC16A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 18:45:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [69.199.47.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BBAA43D46 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 18:45:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AF9B151297; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:45:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 10:45:48 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Payment Online Message-ID: <20050208184548.GA76381@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <21fe04a8050208095747fa487a@mail.gmail.com> <21fe04a805020810053b383442@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <21fe04a805020810053b383442@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: 5.3 release crash X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 18:45:49 -0000 --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:05:13AM -0800, Payment Online wrote: > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:57:19 -0800, Payment Online = wrote: > > I just had a 5.3-release-p2 box crash on me. This box is in > > production so I don't have any debugging information whatsoever. > > However, I'm hoping someone could tell me if what I think caused it is > > possible/probable. > >=20 > > Not long before it crashed I was running some stress tests against a > > new threaded server I was building in python by running 5-10 clients > > simultaneously for about an hour. Since this box has been stable > > for almost a year without any issues at all, I really doubt that it's > > a coincidence. Can anyone think of what issues with threads could > > cause a panic? > >=20 > > Chris > >=20 > One more thing, the threaded application was running in a jail. Not > sure if that could make any difference. Unfortunately you probably need to obtain the debugging information in order to diagnose this. Setting up crashdumps isn't hard and doesn't interfere with production machines. Kris --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCCQjcWry0BWjoQKURApmHAKD2oX7dIWuml96HO6SuKO6c6MRAsACeOr+E i5/wLJ7pWeSfko0T5VRH78U= =W4iS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--