Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:52:40 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Bruce Campbell" <bruce@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11 Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEKAFAAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <1109728882.42251e7274c92@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Bruce Campbell > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:01 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11 > > > > Upgraded a large e-mail server from 4.7 to 5.3 late December/2004 > > The 5.3 system never stayed up for more than 3 days (kernel panics > - often while running "vacation"). > > A fair bit of fiddling trying to keep it running for about a month, > then gave up. Kept the kernel tree updated, no difference. > > Reverted to 4.11 about 3 weeks ago, no problems since. > > Also upgraded a web server to 5.3 during that time, and > had to retreat also, same reasons. > > We do have a heavily loaded 5.2.1 system running well. > > Main difference between the crashy and reliable system > is nfs home dirs on the mail and web servers. nfs server > is 4.7 > > Same hardware in all cases, dual xeon supermicro. > > At a later time we will invest further diagnostic effort. > Sorry for the lack of specifics. > Bruce, Please do us a favor, these kinds of reports basically go into the bit bucket when posted to the freebsd-questions mailing list. If you would be so kind, please run send-pr on your 4.11 systems and send what your seeing in as a bug. Granted, since it's not specific nobody is going to be able to send you a patch or some such - but there is still value in these reports being in there as if others report the same trouble a coorelation can be drawn. Also please list the model number of your SuperMicro motherboards. Thanks! Ted
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