From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 03:07:49 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA8A16A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 03:07:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 65DCB43D2F for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 03:07:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from emanuel.strobl@gmx.net) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 09 Mar 2005 03:07:47 -0000 Received: from flb.schmalzbauer.de (EHLO cale.flintsbach.schmalzbauer.de) (62.245.232.135) by mail.gmx.net (mp026) with SMTP; 09 Mar 2005 04:07:47 +0100 X-Authenticated: #301138 From: Emanuel Strobl To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 04:07:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <422E59C6.9040007@pldrouin.net> In-Reply-To: <422E59C6.9040007@pldrouin.net> X-Birthday: 10/06/72 X-CelPhone: +49 173 9967781 X-Tel: +49 89 18947781 X-Country: Germany X-Address: Munich, 80686 X-OS: FreeBSD MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2238850.n23g0QFRSR"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200503090407.33424@harrymail> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 cc: Pierre-Luc Drouin Subject: Re: kernel trap 12 with interrupts disabled, 5.3-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 03:07:49 -0000 --nextPart2238850.n23g0QFRSR Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Am Mittwoch, 9. M=E4rz 2005 03:04 schrieb Pierre-Luc Drouin: > I have updated a system from FreeBSD 4.10 to 5.3 (I did a fresh new > installation from scatch). At the same time we put a new CPUs in there. [...] > What could be the cause? The non-technical answer: FreeBSD 5.4 is in the release cycle with an upcom= ing=20 5.4 iso image. There were enormous efforts in improving FreeBSD 5.x, so if you already bro= ke=20 your system take the chance and get the new 5.4 system which probably fixes= =20 your problem. Next thing is that you won't see any benefit when enabling hyperthreading.= =20 It's strongly depending on the system's kind of load but almost everytime=20 you'll see performance degradation. > The system was very stable with FreeBSD 4.10 and only 2 CPUs (1 real and > 1 virtual). When I've seen page faults in the past, it was caused by the > RAM or the motherboard. Is it almost always the case? Does the fact to Maybe, but first you have to provide more information and make sure it=20 frequently crashes at different points. Keep patience till anyone of the experts answers, in the meantime you can h= ave=20 a look at=20 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kernel= debug.html for providing more information. =2DMano > add 2 new CPUs is more likely to reveal a RAM problem that was not known > before? > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --nextPart2238850.n23g0QFRSR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCLmh1Bylq0S4AzzwRAgtzAKCHNeSTMwXoXoJcasUkUjHm5JVsPACdGJFL sWvUDib28H95YvpVgpwAd44= =VZ6l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2238850.n23g0QFRSR--