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Date:      Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:38:16 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro>
To:        Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Cc:        Alan Cox <alc@cs.rice.edu>, scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 3.2-STABLE hangs after several hours ... (update)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908311928590.10342-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9908271013320.1836-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>

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Hi,

On Fri, 27 Aug 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote:

> > >  I checked out the previous threads and my situation appears to be similar
> > > to those described in the "On freezes in 3.2-stable" thread, although I
> > > have only 128Mb of RAM and UP kernel; see the attached dmesg output for
> > > more details...
> > > 
> > >  Let me tell you how it worked for me: 
> > > 
> > >   * I had an uptime of more than 13 hours with Juergen's patch, but that's
> > >     not so conclusive, as these freezes tend to be somewhat random
> > > 
> > >   * When I saw your commit I reverted the patch, cvsupped and rebuilt the 
> > >     kernel; the machine hung up some 7-8 hours later ...
> > > 
> >  with the atomic.h fix (which alc mailed me) i cannot reproduce the
> > hang anymore, at least the way i could with the broken kernels.
> > so i would _guess_ that this hang you got had a different cause
> > and it would be interesting to know what it was...
> 
>  Well, well: I have both the atomic.h fix and the vm_object.h patch
> applied, but the machine keeps freezing on high loads (it seems). I guess
> I have to start checking again the hardware and jump on the debugging
> stick...

 Update: after taking off the cover of the machine (I had some heat
problems in the past) and rebuilding a DDB kernel everything gone very
smooth & stable -- over 3 days of uptime. That smells very much like
sensible hardware, I assume that including DDB in the kernel doesn't
change too much the game ??

 Anyway, now I supped & rebuilt once again the kernel (up to Alan's
latest vm_map.c fixup) and changed a NIC (from a flakey -- speaking of
software driver -- RealTeck rl0 to a brand new Intel Pro 10/100+ fxp0).
I'll try to put the cover back on somtime next weeks and get back to you
if anything noticeable comes up...

 Thanks for your support,
 Ady (@warpnet.ro)



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