From owner-freebsd-smp Mon Feb 14 8: 1:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3DF8498C for ; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 08:01:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell-2.enteract.com (jrs@shell-2.enteract.com [207.229.143.41]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA80384; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:01:30 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jrs@enteract.com) Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:01:30 -0600 (CST) From: John Sconiers To: Martin Minkus Cc: Neil Bradley , freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.0 SMP Problem? In-Reply-To: <000b01bf76b6$b7d24740$14b626cb@bender.cnbinc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm using a pretty current SMP system and I'm not having these problems. In my kernel I have but not using soffupdates. The only "big" problem I saw was with sendmail core dumping. > Your not the only one. I had 4.0 panic, and crash time and time again. > Sometimes it'd panic before it could boot all the way up. It also liked > to spontaneously reboot quite often. > Disabling softupdates got rid of alot of the crashes, and the rest were > due to SMP. > SMP alone, and softupdate alone, and everything else, is broken on 4.0. > I cvsup'd a few days ago, so it was a recent current. No, i am not > going to try it again, this is a server, and i can't afford anymore > downtime. > Once i get another machine i can play on, i would love to move my > 4.0-current source tree over, cvsup to update it, and make world to > try it out and play some more. But its not possible right now. > But then again, 3.4 with SMP + Softupdates is cause for trouble too > and causes constant panics for me. Disable softupdates, and all is sweet > again. I use softupdates on a non-smp system (also 3.4) and all is > sweet aswell. So SMP+Softupdates on 3.4 is seriously broken. > 3.4 + SMP + No Softupdates + Async is damn fast, and reliable. So > thats what i use. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message