From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 24 01:44:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 4112316A420 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:44:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost2.sentex.ca (smarthost2.sentex.ca [205.211.164.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92A843D46 for ; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:44:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from BLUELAPIS.sentex.ca (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smarthost2.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with SMTP id j7O1iuRs047303; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:44:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: Eric Rescorla Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 21:45:00 -0400 Message-ID: <02kng1tl6cm28g7alc57r8fpv3irsqrnlm@4ax.com> References: <20050823073110.3702E284D7@sierra.rtfm.com> In-Reply-To: <20050823073110.3702E284D7@sierra.rtfm.com> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 205.211.164.50 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help diagnosing system hangs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:44:59 -0000 On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 23:50:36 -0700, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >I've recently been experiencing frequent hangs with FreeBSD = 5.3-RELEASE-p20. >Strangely, this didn't appear to happen with 5.3-RELEASE or before >a few months ago. > There are a lot of bugs that have been fixed since 5.3-p20. So even if you dropped into the debugger and found what was going on, chances are good that its a bug that has already been fixed. I would go to RELENG_5 if you can, or even RELENG_6 if you wait another week or two. ---Mike -------------------------------------------------------- Mike Tancsa, Sentex communications http://www.sentex.net Providing Internet Access since 1994 mike@sentex.net, (http://www.tancsa.com)