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From: Chris <chrcoluk@gmail.com>
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Cc: DAve <dave.list@pixelhammer.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?
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On 30/03/06, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>

Ok thanks will do this, and if anything useable comes out of it will post i=
t.

Chris