From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Aug 29 10:43:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DA5837B401 for ; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 10:43:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon.sentex.net (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id f7THhQb01998; Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:43:26 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010829133429.03b4b300@marble.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@marble.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2001 13:37:57 -0400 To: Alex Varju , Jos Vissers From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: Freezes in 4.4 RC on SMP kernel Cc: In-Reply-To: <20010829094028.S60349-100000@snapple.webct.com> References: <20010829101307.A44575@tunix.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 09:45 AM 8/29/01 -0700, Alex Varju wrote: >This may be the problem I am seeing on my machine, as well, although I >haven't had time to fully diagnose the problems. I thought that I had bad >ram (my single processor did indeed have bad ram), but the freezing still >continued after taking the new memory out of my dual. By "freeze" you mean its totally locked up, no panic, needs a power cycle to reboot ? In your BIOS, do you have the "Halt on all errors" enabled or disabled ? >I'm using an Asus motherboard, dual P3-450, 256M ram. 4.3-release-p14 has >no problems. 4.4-rc freezes occasionally. 4.4-RC #0: Wed Aug 22 11:43:04 EDT 2001 on a Intel 82443BX (440 BX), dual PIII 800. So far no problems since I upgraded the box. >I run X right on the SMP machine. There are multiple NFS mounts to other >machines, as well as NFS exports that others use. Several Windows >machines use the SMP machine as an rsh server for checking out cvs >sources. Accounts are NIS based here, as well. I have no nfs mounts. Its just a rather busy web server. ---Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message