From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 28 15:59:30 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A94716A41C for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:59:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from SysAdmin@Rainbow-IT.net) Received: from venus.rainbow-it.net (venus.furrie.net [62.3.212.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 374AB43D5D for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:59:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from SysAdmin@Rainbow-IT.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.rainbow-it.net [127.0.0.1]) by venus.rainbow-it.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553A022869; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:59:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from venus.rainbow-it.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (venus.rainbow-it.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32650-05; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:59:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from [10.6.8.7] (freya.hq.rainbow-it.net [10.6.8.7]) by venus.rainbow-it.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C32922824; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:59:23 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42C173D9.3010408@Rainbow-IT.net> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:59:21 +0100 From: Chris Phillips Organization: Rainbow IT Consultancy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org References: <1119950428.22027.1.camel@tarkhil> <42C171AA.6090802@atopia.net> In-Reply-To: <42C171AA.6090802@atopia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rainbow-it.net Cc: Subject: Re: On recent crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 15:59:30 -0000 > Vivek Khera wrote: > >> >> On Jun 28, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Alex Povolotsky wrote: >> >>> Can anyone enlighten me, if recent crashes are on STABLE only or >>> 5.4-RELEASE is affected as well? >>> >> >> I have three boxes running 5.4-RELEASE. one is a mediumly-loaded web >> server, and two are very heavily loaded database servers. none of >> them ever crash. >> > Matt Juszczak wrote: > Other people I've seen complain seem to be running SMP.... Not sure if > that has anything to do with it but its the only similiarity I can pull > out from any responses I've gotten. > I have 5 modestly powered i386 boxes on 5.4-RELEASE and the only time I have had any complaints regarding system stability, is when running an SMP kernel AND Nagios (which is a known problem - I think it's with Nagios rather than FreeBSD). Otherwise, I'm almost completely happy. ChrisP