From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 6 05:13:25 2005 Return-Path: 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 2503916A4CE for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 05:13:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from avscan2.sentex.ca (avscan2.sentex.ca [199.212.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4F3B43D2D for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 05:13:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.sentex.ca [127.0.0.1]) by avscan2.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j065DQpW075061; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:13:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from avscan2.sentex.ca ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (avscan2.sentex.ca [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 74319-08; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:13:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by avscan2.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j065DPIw075055; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:13:25 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j065DGWK082696; Thu, 6 Jan 2005 00:13:16 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.0.20050106001244.04b5abc8@64.7.153.2> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.0.14 Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:14:33 -0500 To: Mitch Parks , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20050104211020.M852@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> References: <20050104211020.M852@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at avscan2b Subject: Re: unstable 5.3 boxes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:13:25 -0000 At 06:29 PM 05/01/2005, Mitch Parks wrote: >It seems both my test and production boxes are not stable with >5.3-Release. I'm hoping for some insight in how to make at least the >production box not crash. >The crashes have been at different times of the day and I've found no >suspicious log activity. At the moment it's been 9 days since the last >crash, but it has also crashed in less than a day. ACPI and HT have always >been enabled on this box without problems. I would update to RELENG_5 and disable in the BIOS HTT. HTT for the most part works against you with the current scheduler and seems to add more instability. But there have been quite a few fixes in RELENG_5 that you might benefit from. ---Mike