From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 19 23:14:45 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1676416F164; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:14:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from mailbackup.inode.at (mailbackup.inode.at [213.229.60.24]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0B0913C441; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:14:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from a.pirko@inode.at) Received: from [62.99.145.5] (port=55252 helo=mx.inode.at) by mailbackup.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HJBk1-000431-3n; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:51:53 +0100 Received: from [85.124.26.15] (port=13810 helo=[192.168.1.11]) by smartmx-05.inode.at with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HJBfv-00042r-1H; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:47:39 +0100 Message-ID: <45D9D4A9.5080400@inode.at> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:47:37 +0100 From: Armin Pirkovitsch User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070122) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, FreeBSD Stable References: <45D9BADB.6010405@webmail.sub.ru> <45D9C174.2050802@thekeelecentre.com> <45D9C9B0.300@webmail.sub.ru> <45D9CDEA.6010106@thekeelecentre.com> <45D9D033.2020909@webmail.sub.ru> In-Reply-To: <45D9D033.2020909@webmail.sub.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: mpd sometimes hangs the whole system? X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:14:45 -0000 Alex Povolotsky wrote: > Richard Tector wrote: >> Alex Povolotsky wrote: >>> Richard Tector wrote: >>>> Alex Povolotsky wrote: >>>>> mpd (fresh) on FreeBSD 6.1p12 sometimes hangs system, totally, to >>>>> reset. Tried two completely different boxes, so it cannot be a >>>>> hardware problem. >>>>> >>>> Which version of mpd are you using? Have you tried the latest >>>> version from ports, 4.1? I've read it fixes a *lot* of problems >>>> found with the older versions. >>> >>> 3.18_5; Is mpd 4 100% backwards compartible? >> >> Yes, 4.x should work just fine with your 3.x configuration files. >> >>> And, what's worse, I've heard of exactly the same problem on 4.0. >>> Kernel _freeze_ should be something kernel-related, I fear. >> >> Quite possible. It involves putting the interfaces in promiscuous mode >> so could be due to a bug in your network card driver. What interfaces >> are you using? > > Proimisc?... hmm... fxp. Rock solid thing, as far as I can remember. Can > try em instead I have the same problem but use a sis nic - so I doubt it's the nic driver... (and if going to promiscuous mode was unstable on different drivers I guess some people would start to complain ;) ) (I have never encountered a crash when I started a sniffing program) -- Armin Pirkovitsch a.pirko@inode.at