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Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 hangs under heavy load????
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Hi again,

I have two Seagate SCSI drives 36GB and 8GB RAM and installed 5.3-REL with
PAE and SMP support.
Now the problem arises that the system hangs under heavy load and there
are no error messages nothing. I have to hard boot it everytime it hangs.


Then I  tried with only SMP and the machine still hangs. I tried using 
New memory and a Maxtor 36Gb SCSI drive , still hangs but was up for 
longer perios 13hrs..
Any one know about this problem.
Alos tried with 5.4-Prerelease same results.
Any help would be great,

Scott any help.

Thanks
Aman
Rojer wrote:

> Amandeep Pannu wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have two Seagate SCSI drives 36GB and 8GB RAM and installed 5.3-REL 
>> with
>> PAE and SMP support.
>> Now the problem arises that the system hangs under heavy load and there
>> are no error messages nothing. I have to hard boot it everytime it 
>> hangs.
>>
> Roger Comments:


> PAE must have something to do with this.
> i have similar reports from fellow admins (they run large free mail 
> service):
> machines with lots (4+ gigs) of memory, 5.3R, SMP and PAE enabled just 
> refused to cooperate,
> freezing and crashing all the way under load.
> sadly, having no time to dive into gory details,
> they just installed Linux on those and all has been going well since 
> that...
> the point is: PAE and large memory configurations in general need more 
> testing.
>