From owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 29 09:00:16 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 ECFEA16A400 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:00:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cyrus.watson.org (cyrus.watson.org [209.31.154.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8460A43D49 for ; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:00:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rwatson@FreeBSD.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [209.31.154.41]) by cyrus.watson.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0EC8646C49; Sat, 29 Apr 2006 05:00:15 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:00:15 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson X-X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: John Pettitt In-Reply-To: <44527E6D.9070001@cloudview.com> Message-ID: <20060429095912.C63668@fledge.watson.org> References: <20060428122811.P40418@fledge.watson.org> <44527E6D.9070001@cloudview.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed 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: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:00:16 -0000 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