From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 2 03:52:50 2005 Return-Path: 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 D249716A4CE for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 03:52:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D3B443D41 for ; Wed, 2 Mar 2005 03:52:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) j223qhb24940; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:52:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "Bruce Campbell" , Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 19:52:40 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1478 In-Reply-To: <1109728882.42251e7274c92@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> Importance: Normal Subject: RE: Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 02 Mar 2005 03:52:50 -0000 > -----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