From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 24 15:10:56 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C9237B400 for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:10:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E8F443E6A for ; Wed, 24 Jul 2002 15:10:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.5/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g6OMAnUm067161; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:10:49 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6OMAnfQ067160; Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:10:49 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:10:49 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: John Engelhart Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serious File System problems (4.6-Release) Message-ID: <20020725001049.B67097@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from johne@zang.com on Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 02:32:25PM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.6-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 02:32:25PM -0700, John Engelhart wrote: > Hello, > > I've been having some very serious stability problems with FreeBSD, mostly > it seems with the file system. I've had these problems since 4.3, but now > I have a free machine that isn't doing anything critical to really pound > on the issue. > ... > > [johne@twister] ~> crashme +2000 666 100 24:00:00& > > I'll do this twice, once each in a seperate TTY, to excercise both CPU's. > > So farl, based on less than a days worth of testing, crashme alone isn't > enough to trip it up. It sets the stage, and will eventually cause it to > panic, but does so slowly. Panic backtrace #1 is from this. > > Adding postmark to the mix causes the whole thing to crumble in about 30 > minutes. See panic backtrace #2. > > Thoughts? Is it memory? Is it CPU? One of the CPU's is brand new. One > of the CPU's is left over from one of the original systems. I've just > purchased another CPU to rule that out. I've also picked up a stick of > 128 megs of ram, one with and one without ECC, to see if that's causing > the problem. Or am I on to some insidous SMP bug? > Guessing (obviously): power supply? -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message