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From: David Allen <zarcondeegrissom@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Lockups on 4.1.1-STABLE after upgrade from 3.4
To: Jasper O'Malley <jooji@nickelkid.com>
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--- Jasper O'Malley <jooji@nickelkid.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> I've got problems with a customer's firewall,
> running FreeBSD 4.1.1-STABLE
> 3.4.10. The machine locks up solid once or twice a
> day, usually twice, at
> about the same times every day. When it locks up,
> it's simply frozen. No
> panics, no network connectivity, and the console
> freezes--no new messages,
> cannot send input from the keyboard, cannot switch
> virtual terminals. The
> only thing to do is hit the reset button or power
> cycle the box. I ran a
> full fsck on all filesystems on Monday (October 10),
> and didn't hit any
> errors.
> 
> 
> What I've done so far:
> 
> 1) Stripped my kernel config down to the bare
> minimum, removing support of
>    USB devices, as well (I don't use any), after
> hearing similar problems
>    from other Compaq users which were solved by
> disabling USB support.
> 
> 2) Disabled usbd and deleted the usb.ko from the
> /modules folder for good
>    measure.
> 
> What I'm going to do:
> 
> 1) Cvsup today's sources, just to be sure.
> 
> 2) Bump NMBCLUSTERS up to 4096 and try out a new
> kernel.
> 
> 3) Upgrade IP Filter to 3.4.11.
> 
> If this doesn't work, I'm going to have to backrev
> to 4.1-RELEASE, but I'd
> rather not do that if I don't have to.
> 
> Anyone have any idea what else I can try?
> 
> Cheers,
> Mick

If the box lockes up at the same time try a netstat
and watch what is hapenning just befor it lockes up,
compare that to a freshboot netstat. try top as well.

heardwear? can you revert to 3.4 for a trial. if that
works fine, then it is ~99.99% NOT heardwear.

best of luck,
Dave

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