From owner-freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 16:26:52 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3EF116A402; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:26:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nate@root.org) Received: from pimout5-ext.prodigy.net (pimout5-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C293B46585; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:26:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nate@root.org) X-ORBL: [71.139.62.134] Received: from [10.0.5.51] (ppp-71-139-62-134.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [71.139.62.134]) by pimout5-ext.prodigy.net (8.13.6 out.dk/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k5QGQelw195030; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:26:41 -0400 Message-ID: <449FA7DD.7000608@root.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 02:24:45 -0700 From: Nate Lawson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060501) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson References: <20060626100949.G24406@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <20060626100949.G24406@fledge.watson.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: scrappy@hub.org, freebsd-acpi@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, Pete French Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: ACPI and power management development List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:26:53 -0000 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