From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 30 14:48:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B21B16A400 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:48:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A10E43D79 for ; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:48:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204291A4D84; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 06:48:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 412D451CE5; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:48:26 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 09:48:26 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway To: Chris Message-ID: <20060330144825.GA12711@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4429A37D.2020500@pixelhammer.com> <20060328213953.GA2682@xor.obsecurity.org> <4429B479.7000408@pixelhammer.com> <20060328224340.GA4063@xor.obsecurity.org> <442ACFB2.70108@pixelhammer.com> <20060329183051.GA78889@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060329190517.GA79103@xor.obsecurity.org> <3aaaa3a0603291148y5065754ag178e4dc7c9ee7986@mail.gmail.com> <20060329200032.GA79386@xor.obsecurity.org> <3aaaa3a0603300051r449b4754l78fe509674d47bb9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jI8keyz6grp/JLjh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3aaaa3a0603300051r449b4754l78fe509674d47bb9@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: DAve , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:48:33 -0000 --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Chris wrote: > > Sorry to hear that, can you point me to the PRs you filed so I can > > take a look? > I didnt do a PR except one for a minor bug since there was nothing > logged on it just died, I have kept one machine running 6.0 so I can > try and resolve the problem and also will upgrade it to 6.1 on release > to see if things are better, should I enable debugging options so it > has better chance of logging something? Yes, you'll want to enable crashdumps (per the developers handbook) at least, and adding INVARIANTS and INVARIANT_SUPPORT is also a good idea if you're encountering a panic, because it may catch it earlier and at the root cause. If you are seeing a deadlock then enable WITNESS and DDB. Kris --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFEK++5Wry0BWjoQKURAkHfAJ0er4SD8OoLpjsO0UXUSdvI8sqwcwCfRkph /1hdfUxXhHri9qWFABzHmWw= =vPXU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jI8keyz6grp/JLjh--