From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 16:55:45 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17F1E106566B for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:55:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pho@holm.cc) Received: from relay02.pair.com (relay02.pair.com [209.68.5.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A24B48FC2A for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 75082 invoked from network); 21 Jul 2010 16:55:42 -0000 Received: from 93.166.52.54 (HELO x2.osted.lan) (93.166.52.54) by relay02.pair.com with SMTP; 21 Jul 2010 16:55:42 -0000 X-pair-Authenticated: 93.166.52.54 Received: from x2.osted.lan (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by x2.osted.lan (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id o6LGtg7M038615; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:55:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pho@x2.osted.lan) Received: (from pho@localhost) by x2.osted.lan (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id o6LGtg01038614; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:55:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pho) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:55:42 +0200 From: Peter Holm To: Yuri Message-ID: <20100721165542.GA38430@x2.osted.lan> References: <4C46A956.3080700@rawbw.com> <20100721145618.GA35893@x2.osted.lan> <4C470BFD.5060600@rawbw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C470BFD.5060600@rawbw.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Are kernel stress test results displayed online? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:55:45 -0000 On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 08:02:21AM -0700, Yuri wrote: > On 07/21/2010 07:56, Peter Holm wrote: > >There's not much to report, but if you have spare time you could run > >the test your self. Different HW is always a good test parameter. > > > > Does this mean that there were no failures at all for years? > No, of cause not. Take a look at http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/ls.html for problems reported. Most if not all have been analyzed and fixed. > The reason why I asked was because I started getting system freezes on > 8.1-PRERELEASE under heavy use. Before, 8.0-STABLE was very stable under > the same load. So I remembered about kernel stress tests in case they > might have higher failure rate after some recent 8.1 changes. But of > course there are other factors like, possible NVidia driver updates or > maybe memory getting bad, etc. > > Yuri I urge you to build a debug kernel and report the details of the problem. If you have a specific test scenario I'd be happy to try and reproduce it. -- Peter