Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 23:22:59 -0400 From: "Matthew R. Briggs" <mbriggs@switchboard.net> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: General SMP Instability SNAP-0523 Message-ID: <3570CD13.87BEDFA9@switchboard.net>
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Hello, I'm new to FreeBSD, having come from the Debian GNU/Linux camp. I'm very impressed with what I have seen while working with the CURRENT snapshot from 0523, but stability has been an issue. I know that the CURRENT-3.0 branch is under heavy development, but I only run SMP boxen and to try FreeBSD out I had to go to CURRENT. Here is the issue: I am able to wedge the system fairly consistently (and often) with parallel makes of various pieces of software. Not the kernel, but "make world -j4" will crash it, as will compilation of FileRunner from the ports collection (along with a few other things). The system will lock hard and drop me to the kernel debugger. Since I'm new to this, what I'm asking for is a description of what information I should send to the right people to fix any bugs or to expose my own ignorance. Here is the hardware I am using to test things out: Tyan Tiger II w/2xPII-333 128MB SDRAM UDMA IDE disk (flags set to b0ffb0ff) Matrox Millenium II AGP PS/2 mouse (though I used an adapter for serial, trying to resolve conflict with the console...no improvement) Kingston KNE40T NIC (21040-based) Thanks for any and all help...I'd really like to get this to work! Matt Briggs mbriggs-at-switchboard.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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