From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Aug 29 6:36:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.218.96.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEDD414BE6 for ; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 06:36:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (housley@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA86485; Sun, 29 Aug 1999 09:33:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <37C93692.EB93AC98@thehousleys.net> Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 09:33:07 -0400 From: "James E. Housley" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.2-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Suresh Rajagopalan Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP freezes on 3.2-STABLE References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Suresh Rajagopalan wrote: > ... > The machines are very busy web servers and simply freeze randomly after > 2-5 days of uptime. There is no response from the console at > the point of freeze. I cannot get it to dump core either. > > Machines are PIII-450 on ASUS P2B-D motherboards with 256Mb of RAM & 800M > swap. All machines are NFS clients mounting off a Solaris X86 server. > The output of mptable is attached below. I've tried MP 1.4 as well as > 1.1. > > I don't know if this is a problem with 3.x in general, and I have read > about larger sites like yahoo running smp-stable. If some of you are > running SMP in a busy web/nfs enviroment, I'd love to hear from you. > The problem is probably NFS. There has been lots of discussion on -hackers IIRC about heavy NFS traffic over the last three months. You might try checking the archives. Jim -- James E. Housley PGP: 1024/03983B4D System Supply, Inc. 2C 3F 3A 0D A8 D8 C3 13 Pager: pagejim@notepage.com 7C F0 B5 BF 27 8B 92 FE "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message