From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 28 18:33:58 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88B0316A4CE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:33:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp1.mc.surewest.net (smtp1.mc.surewest.net [66.60.130.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E8BB43D31 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:33:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dislists@updegrove.net) Received: (s3-18743); Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:32:35 -0700 Received: from unknown (HELO updegrove.net) (64.30.97.117) by smtp1.mc.surewest.net (s3-smtpd/0.90-beta3) with SMTP; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:32:35 -0700 Received: (qmail 36950 invoked by uid 98); 29 Apr 2004 01:34:12 -0000 Received: from dislists@updegrove.net by smeagol.purgatory by uid 1008 with qmail-scanner-1.20 Clear:RC:1(64.166.46.10):. Processed in 0.9513 secs); 29 Apr 2004 01:34:12 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: dislists@updegrove.net via smeagol.purgatory X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20 (Clear:RC:1(64.166.46.10):. Processed in 0.9513 secs) Received: from adsl-64-166-46-10.dsl.scrm01.pacbell.net (HELO updegrove.net) (64.166.46.10) by updegrove.net with SMTP; 29 Apr 2004 01:34:10 -0000 Message-ID: <40905B5C.30805@updegrove.net> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 18:33:16 -0700 From: Rick Updegrove User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <40770C0A.3000000@updegrove.net> <407979F3.20501@freebsd.org> <407C5AED.9040709@updegrove.net> <407C76A6.5080502@users.sourceforge.net> <407CA3D6.2090803@updegrove.net> <20040415144458.P51703@duey.wolves.k12.mo.us> <20040416122506.GA27206@freenix.no> In-Reply-To: <20040416122506.GA27206@freenix.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TST: smtp1 SNWK3 0.31-65 ip=64.30.97.117 Subject: Re: 4.9 SMP Stability? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:33:58 -0000 Morten A. Middelthon wrote: > Now I let FreeBSD do this for me, that is setting maxusers to 0 and > then > _not_ defining NMBCLUSTERS, NSFBUFS etc. So far the machine has been > completely stable. I've done one 'make -j4 buildworld', built several > ports and moved a large filesystem to it over NFS, and no problems. Ever since I built the GENERIC kernel and only enabled SMP and gdb (not disabling anything ) this kernel has not crashed : ) I did upgrade the firmware on the Integrated RAID controller at the same time because I was simply out of troubleshooting time : ( Well so far so good :) (uptime 3 days) I did get this one stuck apache process (this machine is not even a web server so I don't really care that much) root@govmail ~ # ps wwwaux | grep httpd www 344 0.0 3.1 24500 15884 ?? R Thu07PM 0:37.99 /usr/local/sbin/httpd -DSSL but when I tried to kill it with kill -9 it refused to die. So I rebooted the machine and it got stuck on power down waiting for the second CPU to do "something" Sorry I didn't write it down. So, I had to drive to the machine (an hour away) and manually reset it. Anyway, it has been back up for 8 days, 8 hours, 14 minutes and I think the worst is over. I forgot to mention I have two of these Dell PowerEdge 440 boxes running 4.9-STABLE and they are doing just fine! (Both high traffic web+ servers) Kernel Version FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE #0 Uptime 168 days, 15 hours, 48 minutes Processors 2 Model Intel Pentium III Xeon Chip MHz 864 PCI Devices aac0: Dell PERC 2/QC ahc0: Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter ahc1: Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter ahc2: Adaptec aic7880 Ultra SCSI adapter bge0: Broadcom BCM5700 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x7102 fxp0: Intel 82559 Pro/100 Ethernet isab0: ServerWorks IB6566 PCI to ISA bridge ohci0: OHCI (generic) USB controller pci8: unknown card pcib2: PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=0962) IDE Devices none SCSI Devices cd0: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:466 1.06 Rick Thanks again to everyone on the list/team etc. and especially Kris K!!