Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:00:15 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Looking for tor users experiencing crashes Message-ID: <20060429095912.C63668@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <44527E6D.9070001@cloudview.com> References: <20060428122811.P40418@fledge.watson.org> <44527E6D.9070001@cloudview.com>
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On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, John Pettitt 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. > > 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) This is a useful report -- so far I've had about a half dozen reports of absolutely no problems at all on various versions of FreeBSD, and no reports of crashes. Maybe this is a false alarm, or maybe it was a bug in a specific version of FreeBSD. Or maybe it just requires very special circumstances. I'll continue to keep an eye out, and please let me know if you run into a problem. Robert N M Watson
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