From owner-freebsd-current Sat May 30 20:23:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20732 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 30 May 1998 20:23:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from moon.jic.com ([206.156.0.147]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA20679 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 20:23:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mbriggs@switchboard.net) Received: from switchboard.net (alex-va-n013c109.moon.jic.com [208.135.210.119]) by moon.jic.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA29387 for ; Sat, 30 May 1998 23:21:32 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3570CD13.87BEDFA9@switchboard.net> Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 23:22:59 -0400 From: "Matthew R. Briggs" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.1.103 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: General SMP Instability SNAP-0523 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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