From owner-freebsd-chat Sat Nov 16 22:11: 2 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28FC237B401 for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:11:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (12-232-220-15.client.attbi.com [12.232.220.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 542F043E4A for ; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:11:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: from HAL9000.homeunix.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gAH6Aa2q023348; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:10:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Received: (from das@localhost) by HAL9000.homeunix.com (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id gAH6AZMb023347; Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:10:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dschultz@uclink.Berkeley.EDU) Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 22:10:35 -0800 From: David Schultz To: "Marc G. Fournier" Cc: "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , Lefteris Tsintjelis , Peter Hoskin , Hununu , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Message-ID: <20021117061035.GA23317@HAL9000.homeunix.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Marc G. Fournier" , "Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." , Lefteris Tsintjelis , Peter Hoskin , Hununu , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <006601c28ddf$604010f0$fa00a8c0@DaleCoportable> <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thus spake Marc G. Fournier : > Occasional problems with -STABLE I've always expected ... I don't run a > typical server ... hell, I had a problem for awhile there where I was > hitting the edge of the KVM, causing it to crash ... but, I swear, > STABLE's stability has been going down, not improving ... to the point > where I had one machine running a Sept10th kernel that would run for a few > weeks in a stretch, but a newer kernel I'd be lucky to keep alive for > 24-48hrs ... Okay, so you're getting bitten by a bug. Have you tried compiling the kernel with debugging symbols and posting a backtrace when it crashes? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message