From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 2 13:25:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA25417 for current-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:25:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from icicle.winternet.com (adm@icicle.winternet.com [198.174.169.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA25383 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:24:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from adm@localhost) by icicle.winternet.com (8.8.7/8.8.6) id PAA03670; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 15:24:43 -0500 (CDT) Received: from tundra.winternet.com(198.174.169.11) by icicle.winternet.com via smap (V2.0) id xma003534; Tue, 2 Sep 97 15:24:13 -0500 Received: from localhost (mestery@localhost) by tundra.winternet.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA07908; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 15:24:12 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: tundra.winternet.com: mestery owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 15:24:12 -0500 (CDT) From: Kyle Mestery To: Antti-Pekka Liedes cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serious instability with -current kernel In-Reply-To: <19970902230144.44442@hutcs.cs.hut.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 2 Sep 1997, Antti-Pekka Liedes wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD-current on my Tyan Tomcat IIID dual pentium box, and > I've lately had serious instability problems. The latest working kernel I > have was build on Aug 11th, all kernels after that crash randomly after > about 2 minutes of use. There's no error message or anything, just plain > reboot. The problem might be network related, it hasn't crashed if I > haven't had any network connections yet. The Aug 11th kernel works fine. > I made world from fresh sources today. > Hi. I had some stability issues also with recent current kernels, but so far I have found that a kernel from 9-1-97 is really stable. With previous kernels from the week before, I could not get a make world to complete, it always crashed with the message "free vnode isn't". But, a kernel from yesterday completes make world fine. Kyle Mestery StorageTek's Network Systems Group 7600 Boone Ave. N., Brooklyn Park, MN 55428 mesteka@anubis.network.com, mestery@winternet.com