From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Nov 17 02:45:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA11127 for bugs-outgoing; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 02:45:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za [146.64.24.58]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA11122 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 02:45:32 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jhay@localhost) by zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za (8.7.6/8.7.3) id MAA17585; Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:44:44 +0200 (SAT) From: John Hay Message-Id: <199611171044.MAA17585@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za> Subject: Re: kern/1698: sup from around 21:51 GMT 28th very unstable (mmap, maybe?) In-Reply-To: <199611170855.KAA25317@katiska.clinet.fi> from Heikki Suonsivu at "Nov 17, 96 10:55:03 am" To: hsu@clinet.fi (Heikki Suonsivu) Date: Sun, 17 Nov 1996 12:44:44 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL24 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > November 16 kernel is still unstable. For last two kernels I got a > deadlock within 5 minutes of newsfeed starting up, so something might have > changed, from crash and filesystem corruption to deadlock. August 19 > kernel still runs with no serious problems. > > Has anyone got a news server running reliably with kernels later than end > of August (preferably ones with tag RELENG_2_2) ? It seems odd that I can > repeat this so easily, I would assume a lot of people should see this ? I > have gotten metoos from (only?) three people now. This problem has been > there for about 2 months now. > > The system is 3940, seagate Hawks for news disks, P120 ASUS TritonII, 96M. > Exports two NFS disks (not the news partitions). > I have at least an uptime of more than a day. :-) I have rebooted with a 14 Nov -current kernel yesterday morning and it is still running. The machine is a 200Mhz Pentium with 128M RAM and a 2940UW controller with 4 x 2G Hawks. Its got 3 feeds with an average of 180-200k articles per day and feeds 3 other sites also. Oh if it makes a difference, the news spool is a ccd disk over all 4 disks with a blocksize of 8k. The UNINET-ZA which is the South African academic net have 5 feeder machines that run kernels of 10 Nov. They have uptimes of 4-6 days. The one with 4 days uptime gave disk errors and I had to reseat the cables. They have 3 x 2940UW's and 7 x "Quantum XP34300W" wide disks. It looks as if they also use a blocksize of 8k on their spool disk. They have dual processor boards with 256M RAM. If you want more info on these machines have a look at http://www.uni.net.za/config.html John -- John Hay -- John.Hay@mikom.csir.co.za