Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2005 20:48:42 -0500 From: Bruce Campbell <bruce@sciborg.uwaterloo.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: re: Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11 Message-ID: <1111974522.4247627a21079@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca>
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Ted Mittelstaedt said... >Bruce, > > Please do us a favor, these kinds of reports basically go into the >bit bucket when posted to the freebsd-questions mailing list. > > If you would be so kind, please run send-pr on your 4.11 systems >and send what your seeing in as a bug. Granted, since it's not >specific nobody is going to be able to send you a patch or some >such - but there is still value in these reports being in there as >if others report the same trouble a coorelation can be drawn. > > Also please list the model number of your SuperMicro motherboards. > >Thanks! >Ted Supermicro motherboard X5DPR-8G2+ It has been running 4.11 solidly for almost 2 months now. Some more info on the system is here (about a problem experienced on the same system): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/75855 Kris Kennaway said... >Probably this: > >ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ERRATA/notices/FreeBSD-EN-05:03.ipi.asc > >Kris I applied that towards the end of January. Pretty sure anyway, memory is fading. We were running: FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 #3 when we abandoned ship. If memory serves, I rebuilt the kernel only (not the world), when I applied those patches. I have left the department that owns the server now, but I've asked them to followup to this mailling list when they continue with the diagnosis. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Bruce Campbell > Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 6:01 PM > To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org > Subject: Had to revert from 5.3 to 4.11 > > > > Upgraded a large e-mail server from 4.7 to 5.3 late December/2004 > > The 5.3 system never stayed up for more than 3 days (kernel panics > - often while running "vacation"). > > A fair bit of fiddling trying to keep it running for about a month, > then gave up. Kept the kernel tree updated, no difference. > > Reverted to 4.11 about 3 weeks ago, no problems since. > > Also upgraded a web server to 5.3 during that time, and > had to retreat also, same reasons. > > We do have a heavily loaded 5.2.1 system running well. > > Main difference between the crashy and reliable system > is nfs home dirs on the mail and web servers. nfs server > is 4.7 > > Same hardware in all cases, dual xeon supermicro. > > At a later time we will invest further diagnostic effort. > Sorry for the lack of specifics. > -- Bruce Campbell Manager, Science Computing C2-260 University of Waterloo (519)888-4567 ext 6991 ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca
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