Re: FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing

From: Matt Juszczak (matt_at_atopia.net)
Date: 06/28/05

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To: Goran Gajic <ggajic@sbb.co.yu>

    >
    > 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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