From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 28 20:43:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 0250816A41C for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:43:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@atopia.net) Received: from neptune.atopia.net (neptune.atopia.net [209.128.231.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD39043D49 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:43:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matt@atopia.net) Received: by neptune.atopia.net (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 3BD034135; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:43:56 -0400 (EDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by neptune.atopia.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F244D; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:43:56 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:43:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Juszczak To: Goran Gajic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20050628164328.K76419@neptune.atopia.net> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing 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 20:43:57 -0000 > > Hi, > > I have something like 20 boxes (Dell Power Edge 370, Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY > 200 and couple of dual AMD64 Fujitsu-Siemens) servers running 5.4-STABLE. So > far, only machine that I have experienced freezing and was unable to get > droped into KDB or to get any sort of vmcore was Dell Power Edge 1600SC (dual > Xeon 2.4GHz with 4Gb). I have noticed that since it was running squid-2.5 > linked to pthread when I have switched to oops which was compiled on 5.2.1 > and linked to libc_r that machine stoped crashing (HTT disabled, IPFILTER > also disabled configuration GENERIC). However, I have decided to experiment > and upgraded to 6.0-CURRENT and so far I haven't experienced any problems - > except one panic caused by linux.ko and running edonkeyclc for linux (it was > just experiment to see if it will work on 6.0-CURRENT). I suppose that there > might be some problems related to SMP on 5.4 and I don't know what for are > you using problematic servers and I don't know if it is smart to use > 6.0-CURRENT but so far I have positive experince with it on problematic > server and would rather stay with FBSD then switching to NetBSD or OpenBSD. With what you're saying, maybe my problem is that I use IPFILTER and maybe it isn't an SMP problem? Should I switch to PF? -Matt