Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:43:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Matt Juszczak <matt@atopia.net> To: Goran Gajic <ggajic@sbb.co.yu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing Message-ID: <20050628164328.K76419@neptune.atopia.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.62.0506282220010.94204@mail.sbb.co.yu> References: <Pine.BSF.4.62.0506282220010.94204@mail.sbb.co.yu>
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> > Hi, > > I have something like 20 boxes (Dell Power Edge 370, Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY > 200 and couple of dual AMD64 Fujitsu-Siemens) servers running 5.4-STABLE. So > far, only machine that I have experienced freezing and was unable to get > droped into KDB or to get any sort of vmcore was Dell Power Edge 1600SC (dual > Xeon 2.4GHz with 4Gb). I have noticed that since it was running squid-2.5 > linked to pthread when I have switched to oops which was compiled on 5.2.1 > and linked to libc_r that machine stoped crashing (HTT disabled, IPFILTER > also disabled configuration GENERIC). However, I have decided to experiment > and upgraded to 6.0-CURRENT and so far I haven't experienced any problems - > except one panic caused by linux.ko and running edonkeyclc for linux (it was > just experiment to see if it will work on 6.0-CURRENT). I suppose that there > might be some problems related to SMP on 5.4 and I don't know what for are > you using problematic servers and I don't know if it is smart to use > 6.0-CURRENT but so far I have positive experince with it on problematic > server and would rather stay with FBSD then switching to NetBSD or OpenBSD. With what you're saying, maybe my problem is that I use IPFILTER and maybe it isn't an SMP problem? Should I switch to PF? -Matt
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