From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 11 23:56:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA03665 for stable-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from picasso.wcape.school.za (picasso.wcape.school.za [196.21.102.12]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA03654 for ; Tue, 11 Jun 1996 23:56:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from silver by picasso.wcape.school.za with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #1) id m0uTjr9-001nMlC; Wed, 12 Jun 96 08:56 SAT Received: by silver.wcape.school.za (UUPC/extended 1.12r); Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:54:55 +0200 Message-ID: <31be69bf.silver@silver.wcape.school.za> From: Stephen Marquard Organization: Western Cape Schools' Network To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 08:54:48 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Stability of 2.1-960606-SNAP ? Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.31) Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Can anyone comment on the stability of the STABLE SNAP that Jordan produced? Is the pmap problem below present in the SNAP? Is it stable enough to put on a critical and heavily-loaded server? Stephen On 12 Jun 96 at 0:00, Bradley Dunn wrote: > Well, the new (old) pmap.c seems to be holding up. The machine > previously crashed at least once every 24 hours. It has now been up > for over 48. Just to let you know that the pmap code seems to have > made the difference. > > On 9 Jun 96 at 17:54, David Greenman wrote: > > > >FWIW, our news server has been crashing about once a day with this > > >double fault as well. Next time it happens I'll look up the address > > > and forward it on. It was doing this before the mega-commit, so > > >after things got cleaned up I rebuilt but the machine still goes > > >down about once a day, usually during an expire. > > > > Please update your kernel to the "current" -stable. I just > > reverted the > > pmap code to what was in 2.1R due to possibly related problems. > > > > -DG > > Bradley Dunn > Harbor Communications -- www.haborcom.net > or something... --- Stephen Marquard scm@silver.wcape.school.za Western Cape Schools' Network 12 Silverdale, Pinelands 7405, Cape Town, SA