Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:28:33 -0700 From: "Wil Hatfield" <freebsd@hyperconx.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Kernel Panics in 6.1 and 6.2 always Exim 4 Message-ID: <NGBBKBOMKLFOJCCDHPEOCEGIHEAB.freebsd@hyperconx.com> In-Reply-To: <46F45F9E.3010705@FreeBSD.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Kris Kennaway [mailto:kris@FreeBSD.org] > Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 5:20 PM > To: Wil Hatfield > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Kernel Panics in 6.1 and 6.2 always Exim 4 > > > Wil Hatfield wrote: > > Well after a year we still haven't tracked down the kernel > panic problems > > that are occuring on both our 6.1 and 6.2 machines for those we have had > > time to upgrade. It occurs on 6.1-RC, 6.1-RELEASE 6.1-STABLE, > 6.2, you name > > it. > > > > We are noticing that all of the dumps are during Exim 4.6x runtime. I am > > suspicious of PR-97095 but would like others insights into the > possibility. > > Well, as that PR says, the patch was committed after 6.1-RELEASE, > therefore it is expected that older systems will have the problem. You > only provided a trace from a 6.1 machine, so if you are saying that it > still persists on an up-to-date RELENG_6 kernel, please file a new PR > with the details. > > Kris Unfortunately when I upgraded the machine I have from 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2 it stopped dumping for me. So I have nothing to analyze. However, I still get the kernel panics I did before. Same frequency and always Exim. I bumped into a thread somewhere that said something about setting nmbclusters=0 might be a good workaround for this bug. Anybody heard anything about this or does it seem logical? Wil
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