From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 2 13:37:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA26300 for current-outgoing; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:37:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hutcs.cs.hut.fi (hutcs.cs.hut.fi [130.233.192.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA26294 for ; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 13:37:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from apl@localhost) by hutcs.cs.hut.fi (8.8.5/8.7.3) id XAA09419; Tue, 2 Sep 1997 23:36:56 +0300 (EET DST) Message-ID: <19970902233656.44009@hutcs.cs.hut.fi> Date: Tue, 2 Sep 1997 23:36:56 +0300 From: Antti-Pekka Liedes To: Steve Passe Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serious instability with -current kernel References: <19970902230144.44442@hutcs.cs.hut.fi> <199709022031.OAA00894@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.79 In-Reply-To: <199709022031.OAA00894@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>; from Steve Passe on Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 02:31:01PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 02:31:01PM -0600, Steve Passe wrote: > Hi, > > > > 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. > > I presume this is an SMP kernel? > Yep. > --- > > 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. > > > > Other hardware includes AHA-3940U, Matrox Millennium, and SMC EtherPower > > 10/100. > > is this using the de driver? I think others have reported problems with > it recently. Any chance of using another network card/driver? > Yes, I'm using the de-driver. I don't have any other network cards but three etherpowers, so no choice there... I think my troubles started after a few changes to TCP-sections of the kernel a couple of days after Aug 11th. Back then I thought I maybe just had a broken src-tree but the problem is still here. > > -- > Steve Passe | powered by > smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD > -- Antti-Pekka Liedes * apl@IRC * In two hells there's JMT 6 B 406 * apl@iki.fi * one hell too many 02150 ESPOO * apl@apocalypse.tky.hut.fi * - Lucifer +358 - 9 - 468 3121 * +358 - 40 - 5873 593 * (in God's Army)