From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 4 14:05:01 2006 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 C822616A400 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:05:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from yertle.kcilink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [65.205.34.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE6143D46 for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 14:05:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vivek@khera.org) Received: from [192.168.7.103] (host-103.int.kcilink.com [192.168.7.103]) by yertle.kcilink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB514B81E for ; Tue, 4 Apr 2006 10:04:59 -0400 (EDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.3) In-Reply-To: <35547AA9-77E7-47C6-8897-7CC09273118A@illian-networks.nl> References: <35547AA9-77E7-47C6-8897-7CC09273118A@illian-networks.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Vivek Khera Date: Tue, 4 Apr 2006 10:04:56 -0400 To: freebsd-stable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.3) Subject: Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP? 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, 04 Apr 2006 14:05:01 -0000 On Apr 4, 2006, at 4:37 AM, Rutger Bevaart wrote: > I'm completely at a loss, and inclined to remove FreeBSD and > install "another OS" as it is an important management machine for > us, that reboots about monthly. > > Any clues, tips, help, know bugs? > Either bad hardware or pilot error. Here's some stats for you: [morebiz]% grep DELL /var/run/dmesg.boot ACPI APIC Table: acpi0: on motherboard [morebiz]% sysctl kern.boottime kern.boottime: { sec = 1130521993, usec = 140021 } Fri Oct 28 13:53:13 2005 [morebiz]% date Tue Apr 4 09:58:18 EDT 2006 [morebiz]% uptime 9:58AM up 157 days, 20:05, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 [morebiz]% uname -r 5.4-RELEASE-p8 This machine runs two instances of apache on two IPs, a postgres server and a mysql server to run a few different web sites. It gets a fair number of hits, many of which hit the dbs. I run with hyperthreading enabled, but when I next upgrade this box to 6.1, I will turn it off. I don't have any 2850's but the one 1850 I have has been 100% stable since it went into production last october running FreeBSD 6.0. I'd buy it again in a heartbeat. Are you sure your electrical power is stable?