Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 14:45:26 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: alex@schnarff.com Cc: "Michael L. Squires" <mikes@siralan.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Jean Lagarde <jean.lagarde@gmail.com> Subject: Re: Stability Issues on 5.4-RELEASE Box Message-ID: <20070301194526.GA29334@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20070228173948.dwb7tptigo00sgc8@mail.schnarff.com> References: <20070228122108.bhd56o5wn4ss8c4g@mail.schnarff.com> <20070228163430.V12239@familysquires.net> <20070228173948.dwb7tptigo00sgc8@mail.schnarff.com>
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--d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:39:48PM -0500, alex@schnarff.com wrote: > >I'm not running your application mix, but I've never seen random reboots > >unless there were hardware issues. With 5.X these included having > >hyperthreading turned on, which I know caused problems with my dual XEON > >system. >=20 > Hmmm...two answers so far, two people saying "hyperthreading can be an=20 > issue." I'll definitely have that turned off ASAP. HTT isn't expected to cause problems at least on modern versions of FreeBSD (I dont remember if old versions like 5.4 have a bug), but it could be if you are running older hardware with broken BIOS support. > >>* Issues with files that are not found on startup sometimes, but are=20 > >>other times. Prime example: the Zope CMS system that's been=20 > >>installed failed to find libmysqlclient.so after a planned soft=20 > >>reboot, but found it with no trouble on a subsequent boot a few=20 > >>minutes later, with no config changes in between. > >> > >Haven't seen that; are there any messages indicating you're having > >filesystem problems? >=20 > Thanks for asking; I see some new nasties in /var/log/messages: >=20 > Feb 27 09:05:37 www fsck: /dev/ad4s1f: PARTIALLY TRUNCATED INODE I=3D9397= 392 > Feb 27 09:05:37 www fsck: /dev/ad4s1f: UNEXPECTED SOFT UPDATE=20 > INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY. You definitely need to drop to single-user mode and fsck -f: filesystem corruption can cause many problems. > >>* Given my dmesg below, do you see any specific problems? > > > >The interrupt storm on uhci1+ is not a good thing. >=20 > Any thoughts on how to fix it? You can disable USB support if you do not need it, otherwise a fix will probably involve an upgrade to a newer version as a first step. Kris --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFF5y1WWry0BWjoQKURAqzKAKCE1dPTrVKmHnPzpL1i46V5n2mu7ACgkWHg 3jW47HktcSmaXJuNYfYXwOg= =sIih -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --d6Gm4EdcadzBjdND--
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