From owner-freebsd-smp Sun Aug 24 16:53:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA00462 for smp-outgoing; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 16:53:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ic.net (qmailr@srv2b.ic.net [152.160.72.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA00456 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 16:53:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 432 invoked from network); 24 Aug 1997 23:52:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lurch.rickl.org) (152.160.108.29) by unknown with SMTP; 24 Aug 1997 23:52:56 -0000 Received: (from rickl@localhost) by lurch.rickl.org (8.8.7/8.7.3) id TAA14922 for smp@freebsd.org; Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:52:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.1 [p0] on FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 19:39:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Rick Lotoczky To: smp@freebsd.org Subject: Show of Hands Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi Steve, I have a P6DOF motherboard with a 2940UW Adaptec controller and a NCR '815 controller as well. Since about the 1st of August or so, the SMP kernel has been very unstable. The UP kernel seems to behave well enough to go for days without crashing. The first problems which arose were the SCB issues which were mentioned previously. I found that deleting the AHC extensions in the kernel seemed to resolve this problem. On another note, during a "make world" I started to get an error message that a vnode that was to be allocated couldn't be. I'm not sure if this is a SMP issue or not. Lastly, my MB does is not MP-1.4 capable, only -1.1. No BIOS upgrade exists (at least one that I've been able to find). I am back to the UP kernel now because the SMP kernel crashes so often that I can't get mail out. I will send the mptable -dmesg output to you once I rebuild and reboot the SMP kernel. I have been using the cvsup'd sources since early this year and have not built a SNAP since about then. I've been using the SMP kernel for the past few months or so and it has worked well in the past. Just my $0.02 worth. Rick