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Date:      Tue, 4 Mar 2003 12:33:53 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Khairil Yusof <kaeru@pd.jaring.my>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Temporary lockups on 5-release
Message-ID:  <20030304203353.GB93052@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <1046786866.578.197.camel@daemon.home.net>
References:  <1046755156.598.92.camel@daemon.home.net> <20030304074800.GA89765@rot13.obsecurity.org> <1046786866.578.197.camel@daemon.home.net>

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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

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