From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Mar 3 10: 0:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E66F137B404 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 10:00:27 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g23Hx0W62463; Sun, 3 Mar 2002 09:59:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 09:59:00 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200203031759.g23Hx0W62463@apollo.backplane.com> To: Eugene Grosbein Cc: McKusick , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5-STABLE softupdates brokeness: repeated panics and lockups References: <20020303120121.A2197@svzserv.kemerovo.su> <200203030538.g235c2l59112@apollo.backplane.com> <20020303131955.A3250@svzserv.kemerovo.su> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 09:38:02PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: : :> :So I decided to turn softupdates off with tunefs on all of my filesystems. :> :The root filesystem had softpupdates already turned off. :> :> Did turning softupdates off solve the problem? : :No. It crashed again twice till now, but this time it could restart :automatically. But now kernel panics are due page faults. :This server has modem attached to /dev/cuaa0 and serves as my personal :pppd dialin server. I dial from home using pppd, :my home machine runs old FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. I use PPP_DEFLATE. :All crashes were when I was online from home. : :Here is the first time after softupdates turned off: Try turning off *ALL* in-kernel PPP options and use the userland-only ppp instead. -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message