From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Aug 31 9:38:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ady.warpnet.ro (ady.warpnet.ro [194.102.224.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 670ED14ECF for ; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 09:37:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Received: from localhost (ady@localhost) by ady.warpnet.ro (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA10864; Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:38:16 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from ady@warpnet.ro) Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 19:38:16 +0300 (EEST) From: Adrian Penisoara To: Juergen Lock Cc: Alan Cox , scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.2-STABLE hangs after several hours ... (update) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message