From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 28 20:43:31 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C879616A403; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:43:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (skipjack.no-such-agency.net [64.142.114.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E3043D49; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:43:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D37D34DA1A; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:43:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.120] (blackhole.no-such-agency.net [64.142.103.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A486A34DA19; Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:43:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44527E6D.9070001@cloudview.com> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 13:43:25 -0700 From: John Pettitt User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <20060428122811.P40418@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20060428122811.P40418@fledge.watson.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AV-Checked: by skipjack Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Looking for tor users experiencing crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-security@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Security issues \[members-only posting\]" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 20:43:31 -0000 Robert Watson wrote: > > I've had an informal, third or fourth hand report of kernel > instability when running Tor under load on unidentified versions of > FreeBSD. Obviously, this is a bit vague as bug reports go, but I'm > interested in seeing if anyone has had real experience with this > happening, and might be interested in helping to track it down. If > there are kernel crashes, I'm specifically looking for information on > what version of FreeBSD is being used, a panic message / trap message, > DDB stack trace, etc. I'm assuming it's likely a networking related > bug, which I'm happy to work on fixing. If it's not network-related, > I can certainly try to track someone down who could work on it. > > Thanks, > > Robert N M Watson For what it's worth I had tor running on my 5.3 co-lo box for about 200 days without a problem (had to reboot for a kernel reboot after 400+ days of uptime) John