From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 13 02:59:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF3EE16A402 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@scottevil.com) Received: from pro28.abac.com (pro28.abac.com [66.226.64.29]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB1C113C45D for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:59:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@scottevil.com) Received: from [192.168.2.83] (CPE-24-166-164-34.kc.res.rr.com [24.166.164.34]) (authenticated bits=0) by pro28.abac.com (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l2D2xiwC018060; Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:59:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@scottevil.com) Message-ID: <45F613A0.8000708@scottevil.com> Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2007 21:59:44 -0500 From: Scott Oertel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (Windows/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Markus Oestreicher References: <45F4D001.4030901@scottevil.com> <45F5ADB3.1010405@scottevil.com> <45F5DFD0.2090101@x-trader.de> In-Reply-To: <45F5DFD0.2090101@x-trader.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2-RELEASE Kernel Panic (thread taskq) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 02:59:49 -0000 Markus Oestreicher wrote: > Scott Oertel schrieb: >>> I have 8 machines running 6.2-RELEASE, they're all under pretty >>> heavy load. All but one is running Dual Opterons on Tyan >>> motherboards, the other is running 2x Dual Core Xeon, on a >>> Supermicro mb. I am receiving this panic on all the machines, some >>> of them it happens once a month, others every few days. The only >>> thing they all have in common now is they're running 3ware 9550SX >>> SATA RAID controllers, and a PAE/SMP kernel >>> >>> I have done a lot of searching around and have found other people >>> having this same issue, but nobody seems to have a fix for it, or >>> the threads just die eventually. I'm trying to get a dump but they >>> seem to be corrupted when I try and load them into the debugger. I >>> am going to attempt to do some online debugging next time I >>> encounter one of these panic's > > I had the same panic about once a day. In my case the machine was a mail > server running amavisd-new and SpamAssassin. After I have disabled razor > and pyzor checks the machine has been stable for months. > > What are the machines running in your case? > > Markus Interesting, I read your previous post regarding the panic, it's nearly identical. These machines are hosting sites and filtering mail. I'll try and disable some of the filtering and see what happens. I'm not confident it will fix the problem, but it's worth a shot. Thanks, Scott Oertel