Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 00:10:49 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl> To: John Engelhart <johne@zang.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serious File System problems (4.6-Release) Message-ID: <20020725001049.B67097@freebie.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207241412190.25631-100000@zang.com>; from johne@zang.com on Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 02:32:25PM -0700 References: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0207241412190.25631-100000@zang.com>
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 02:32:25PM -0700, John Engelhart wrote: > Hello, > > I've been having some very serious stability problems with FreeBSD, mostly > it seems with the file system. I've had these problems since 4.3, but now > I have a free machine that isn't doing anything critical to really pound > on the issue. > ... > > [johne@twister] ~> crashme +2000 666 100 24:00:00& > > I'll do this twice, once each in a seperate TTY, to excercise both CPU's. > > So farl, based on less than a days worth of testing, crashme alone isn't > enough to trip it up. It sets the stage, and will eventually cause it to > panic, but does so slowly. Panic backtrace #1 is from this. > > Adding postmark to the mix causes the whole thing to crumble in about 30 > minutes. See panic backtrace #2. > > Thoughts? Is it memory? Is it CPU? One of the CPU's is brand new. One > of the CPU's is left over from one of the original systems. I've just > purchased another CPU to rule that out. I've also picked up a stick of > 128 megs of ram, one with and one without ECC, to see if that's causing > the problem. Or am I on to some insidous SMP bug? > Guessing (obviously): power supply? -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Arnhem, the Netherlands To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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