Date: Sat, 25 Sep 1999 13:13:47 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Adrian Penisoara <ady@warpnet.ro> Cc: Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: -stable (in)stability (was Re: Best version of FBSD for INN ?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909251312360.22201-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909251822420.3681-100000@ady.warpnet.ro>
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Just to confirm...I've had similar problems, but *only* after moving to
INN-CURRENT, which makes *very* heavy use of MMAP() :(
What version of INN are you running?
On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Adrian Penisoara wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Mark Powell wrote:
>
> > I have INN v2.2 running happily on a 3.1-STABLE machine, with all mmap
> > options turned on. I read of mmap problems with 3.2-stable. Maybe my
> > server just isn't loaded enough to grok on these problmes, but when I set
> > up a new news server should I stay with 3.1 or have these problems been
> > fixed in 3.3? Cheers.
>
> You'd better stay with what it works for you right now. I'm sorry to say
> it but since upgrading to 3.2-STABLE about end of August I get random
> freezes every 1-2 days and even in 3.3-STABLE as of 20th September this
> seems to not have been fixed; other people also reported on -stable
> problems they had with 3.3 ...
>
> Before any of you start flaming me about hardware problems let me assure
> you I have thoroughly checked the machine and had DDB compiled in kernel;
> I also might add that this machine had NO problems before upgrading to
> 3.2/3.3 and had respectable uptimes (now I can't get over 3 days of
> uptime).
>
> This is not intended to subminate FreeBSD's image but rather to launch a
> "HEADS UP" warning in respect of -stable branch stability in this period
> of time. I'm willing to cooperate with whoever wants to fix this in the
> limits of my possibilities (this is a production server)...
>
> PS: I could have filed a PR but I can't figure any way of reproducing
> this -- just a double panic caught by my co-worker, details posted on
> -stable on 19th Sep with "3.2-STABLE hangs after several hours" in
> the subject...
>
> Thank you,
> Ady (@warpnet.ro)
> Warp Net Technologies
>
>
>
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