Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 18 Jul 2005 19:42:02 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Gary Mulder <gmulder@infotechfl.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing.
Message-ID:  <20050718234202.GB68899@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0507181735440.5051-100000@pigeon.infotechfl.com>
References:  <20050718204324.GA37192@shellma.zin.lublin.pl> <Pine.LNX.4.44.0507181735440.5051-100000@pigeon.infotechfl.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 05:39:40PM -0400, Gary Mulder wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Pawel Malachowski wrote:
>=20
> > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 04:09:58PM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
> >=20
> > > Correct.  IPF is unstable with our SMP (most of the time) - based 5.x=
=20
> > > boxes.  VERY unstable.  VERY VERY unstable.
> >=20
> > Hm, this sounds bad. What is debug.mpsafenet set to? How big is traffic?
> >=20
> > I have one SMP box with ipnat, routing some megabits (even during night
> > it's more than 30-40Mbps) without problems, however, ipnat is used only
> > for very small group of hosts right now.
> > But we plan to use ipnat more heavily so it sounds a bit scary. ;)
> =20
> >From personal experience I can repeat what Matt has stated. It seems to =
be=20
> related to what NIC you have. I have had crashes with fxp (Intel Pro=20
> 100MBit) and bge (Broadcom Gigabit) NICs under moderate network load.=20
> Removing ipf reduced but did not eliminate the crashes. debug.mpsafe also=
=20
> reduced but did not eliminate the crashes.

No, that's different then.  Please report your bugs in the usual way
(gdb traceback, etc).

Kris

--TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD)

iD4DBQFC3D5KWry0BWjoQKURAihuAKDjccMjQp6NuC1DH3uvo2gzxq7sJACY0YVb
6A0YnALvYYYkGXCmk/t9Gg==
=Tf9H
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--TRYliJ5NKNqkz5bu--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050718234202.GB68899>