From owner-freebsd-smp Tue Mar 4 12:33:57 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8652637B401 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:33:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-63-207-60-52.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [63.207.60.52]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3D8443F3F for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:33:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from rot13.obsecurity.org (rot13.obsecurity.org [10.0.0.5]) by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7880E66B60; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:33:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by rot13.obsecurity.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 5ED8D1023; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:33:53 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:33:53 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Khairil Yusof Cc: Kris Kennaway , freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Temporary lockups on 5-release Message-ID: <20030304203353.GB93052@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <1046755156.598.92.camel@daemon.home.net> <20030304074800.GA89765@rot13.obsecurity.org> <1046786866.578.197.camel@daemon.home.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1046786866.578.197.camel@daemon.home.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 10:07:48PM +0800, Khairil Yusof wrote: > These lockups are worrying for me because, they lead to system reboots. > And they are my personal benchmark for stability (ie can FreeBSD recover > or not when it happens). >=20 > FreeBSD 5 RC-1 -> system reboots > FreeBSD 5 RC-2 -> ok > FREEBSD 5 RC-3 and RELEASE -> ok > FREEBSD CURRENT (as of last weekend) -> system reboot. It sounds like you're seeing kernel panics which are going unnoticed (well, except for the reboot ;) because you don't have the system configured for crashdumps or serial gdb. > I'm back to RELEASE, because the constant reboots can cause data > corruption which is not good for my one and only home system. That sounds appropriate. Kris --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+ZQ2wWry0BWjoQKURAtEFAKC3zWoPyL77mG7H01anfRxOrch7CQCg8HHi QDtdPF6RO0IVvwrKd0xkNlY= =aer2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --KFztAG8eRSV9hGtP-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message