From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 15 21:38:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from green.homeunix.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3649016A4CE; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:38:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from green.homeunix.org (green@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by green.homeunix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5FLcIxJ006948; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:38:18 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from green@green.homeunix.org) Received: (from green@localhost) by green.homeunix.org (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5FLcHnk006947; Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:38:17 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from green) Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 17:38:17 -0400 From: Brian Feldman To: Tamas TEVESZ Message-ID: <20040615213817.GG1016@green.homeunix.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.10-RELEASE and -STABLE crashing regularly under load X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 21:38:19 -0000 On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:34:57PM +0200, Tamas TEVESZ wrote: > > hi folks, > > [i've posted the following message to -bugs@ a while ago, but > then was directed here by a friend freebsder. while reposting, i > also corrected some minor facts i missed in the previous post] > > i have a dell poweredge 2600 (4G ram, 2x2.8ghz xeon cpus, some disk, > full dmesg below), running a heavily loaded website (apache13, php, cgi, > pure-ftpd). this is a brand new 4.10-release install, brought to sync > with -stable, both exhibit the exact same problem), which every once > in a while crashes badly. 4.10-R did that every ~2.5 days, 4.10-S did > it for the first time after one day. (before that, system was running > 4.9-stable on a poweredge 4600 with one xeon cpu, no ht, no smp, > no nothing like that, and was very stable). > > i cannot entirely rule out bad hardware as this is a brand new system, > but we haven't had many problems with dell stuff before. > > everything i think to be related is included below; if anything else > is needed just please tell so. Isn't this the board that apparently can't do HTT without crashing? Try disabling HTT completely instead, as I don't think the sysctl does that. -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\