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Subject: Re: 4.9 SMP Stability?
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Jeff Johnson wrote:

> So there was some discussion recently about SMP boxes spontaneously 
> rebooting with no crash dump logged.

Yes this is a fact.

> as someone considering upgrading to 4.9 i naturally have some 
> reservation and concern.

Do you need anything that 4.9 offers?

> Can folks comment on 4.9 stability and SMP.
> Are these rare fluke cases or a more common occurrence?

I was up for over 130 days on 4.8-STABLE

The longest FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE could stay up was *no more than 48 hours*.

Since I downgraded to FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE-p17 #0

Uptime 4 days, 12 hours, 53 minutes

So far so good.... check back in another 100 days


Rick