From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 9 19:55:31 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3F44106564A for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:55:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rblayzor.bulk@inoc.net) Received: from mail1.albyny.inoc.net (mail1.albyny.inoc.net [64.22.32.71]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 911C88FC17 for ; Fri, 9 Jan 2009 19:55:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rblayzor.bulk@inoc.net) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=inoc.net; h=Received:From:To:Subject:Date; b=pBRpma1+ON4fdxILo8nN1S/B4CByk80nOw+GpihQXMqUQVqYI7IQcKceuLrf4FGzrYxc/Y+klPqXctoMXnNp3HVtHgwQK5GaJFuK+o6h6ku8IGZ/f6Pm6bGl+Fs+86x8x9z+QSLDx7LsazQUc+F+LMMyYBgUZpmzqHlf2I4rOxk=; Received: from void.ops.inoc.net (vanguard.noc.albyny.inoc.net [64.246.135.8]) by mail1.albyny.inoc.net (build v8.9.30) with ESMTP id 568249-1941382 for multiple; Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:39:25 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: <042FE04A-2F8D-47DD-8454-7BBA3791D7A8@inoc.net> From: Robert Blayzor To: Pete French In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v930.3) Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 14:39:24 -0500 References: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.930.3) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-( X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 19:55:32 -0000 On Jan 8, 2009, at 8:58 PM, Pete French wrote: > I have a number of HP 1U servers, all of which were running 7.0 > perfectly happily. I have been testing 7.1 in it's various > incarnations > for the last couple of months on our test server and it has performed > perfectly. I noticed a problem with 7.0 on a couple of Dell servers. Not sure if this is related but when our system "froze" the box was pingable, and you could switch virtual consoles... however, you could not type anything on the screen or connect to any sockets. Num-lock would still work so the box wasn't solidly frozen. This used to happen a couple of times every week or two. We've since then compiled the kernel under the BSD scheduler to rule that out, and so far so good. (our box was a Dell PE1750, 2GB of RAM, amr RAID controller, bge network driver) The primary application was just ntpd and apache with mpm_worker & threads. Since ULE is now default in 7.1 and not in 7.0, perhaps you can try that? -- Robert Blayzor, BOFH INOC, LLC rblayzor@inoc.net http://www.inoc.net/~rblayzor/