From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Apr 28 11:49:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.61]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B6BF37B41B for ; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 11:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from 66-44-8-192.s2224.apx1.lnh.md.dialup.rcn.com ([66.44.8.192] helo=Cyclonus.cybertron.lan) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #10) id 171tje-00032S-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:49:23 -0400 Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 14:49:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Kryten X-X-Sender: kryten@Cyclonus.cybertron.lan Reply-To: Kryten To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD/SMP hangs. (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmm, I've also had problems with 4.5-STABLE on my SMP box. I have dual p3's on a Tyan S1834D (w/ a not so great VIA chipset) that randomly locks up after about a day or two of uptime. 4.5-RELEASE-p2 ran fine, and I've downgraded STABLE to RELEASE-p4 which seems to be running fine as well, but it's only been about 4 days. On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Willie Viljoen wrote: > Hi, I've been having some problems with recent builds of 4.5-STABLE. I > have an old Dell PowerEdge SP590-2 system. It has two pentium-90 CPUs. > > Since recently, it has been hanging randomly. First, TCP listening daemons > stop taking new connections, then it stops wanting to spawn new processes, > and then just hangs dead, not even dropping into gdb. > > We've checked every posibility, even that of a DoS, we've disconnected it > from the network, and not mounted unneeded file systems. Still it does the > same... > > It worked fine with a 4.5-RELEASE-p2 kernel which was built SMP. Non-SMP > kernels also run without a hitch. > > Any thoughts? > > Will > > -- > Willie Viljoen > Private IT Consultant > > 214 Paul Kruger Avenue > Universitas > Bloemfontein > 9321 > > South Africa > > +27 51 522 15 60, a/h +27 51 522 44 36 > +27 82 404 03 27 > > will@laserfence.net > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > --------------------- This message powered by Pine and GNU/Linux To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message