Date: Thu, 06 Jan 2005 00:14:33 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Mitch Parks <mitch@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: unstable 5.3 boxes Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.0.20050106001244.04b5abc8@64.7.153.2> In-Reply-To: <20050104211020.M852@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu> References: <20050104211020.M852@kuoi.asui.uidaho.edu>
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At 06:29 PM 05/01/2005, Mitch Parks wrote:
>It seems both my test and production boxes are not stable with
>5.3-Release. I'm hoping for some insight in how to make at least the
>production box not crash.
>The crashes have been at different times of the day and I've found no
>suspicious log activity. At the moment it's been 9 days since the last
>crash, but it has also crashed in less than a day. ACPI and HT have always
>been enabled on this box without problems.
I would update to RELENG_5 and disable in the BIOS HTT. HTT for the most
part works against you with the current scheduler and seems to add more
instability. But there have been quite a few fixes in RELENG_5 that you
might benefit from.
---Mike
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