Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:24:45 -0700 From: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ... Message-ID: <449FA7DD.7000608@root.org> In-Reply-To: <20060626100949.G24406@fledge.watson.org> References: <E1FuYsL-000HT3-H2@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> <20060626100949.G24406@fledge.watson.org>
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Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Pete French wrote: > >>> 'k, I'm starting to get the impression that FreeBSD 6.x is evil ... >>> at least as far as Dual-PIII servers are concerned ... on a machine >>> that, >> >> I can't comment on your other problems - but I have a dual PIII server >> and say a 30% performance increase when moving to 6.x over 5.x ... and >> it's been rock solid. I only run releases on that box though, but it >> does perform really nicely on PIII duals when you can get it stable. >> Seems a shame that you are having so many problems. > > I'm also running 6.x on several dual-PIII without problems. An issue > local to Marc's setup is definitely indicated. Given the failure mode, > I would be worried about a potential hardware issue, although subtle > hardware and subtle system software problems are sometimes difficult to > distinguish. If it passes the memtest x86 iso, let me know. Also, make sure there are no overrides of memory size in loader.conf. -- Nate
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