From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Apr 14 10:27:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from apotheosis.org.za (apotheosis.org.za [137.158.128.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83C7C37BF2C for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 10:27:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwest@uct.ac.za) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 19:25:43 +0200 From: Matthew West To: Rahul Dhesi Cc: Gregory Bond , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/17122: crash due to: softdep_disk_write_com Message-ID: <20000414192543.A94912@apotheosis.org.za> References: <200004140623.QAA04267@lightning.itga.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from "Rahul Dhesi" on Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 11:38:45PM Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 13, 2000 at 11:38:45PM -0700, Rahul Dhesi wrote: > In my case the machine does many things: > squid proxy cache > incoming and outgoing mail > NFS service for exported mail file system > general-purpose shell access for users > recursive name service for PPP users > authoritative name service for one busy DNS zone We have several FreeBSD machines running quite smoothly with softupdates enabled, under varying loads. The only time softupdates proved to cause instability was on our (heavily loaded) NFS server. Disabling softupdates made the crashes go away. The problem existed in 3.4-RELEASE and is still present in 4.0-RELEASE. -- mwest@uct.ac.za To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message