From owner-freebsd-stable Tue May 25 3:10: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from xwin.nmhtech.com (xwin.nmhtech.com [208.138.46.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0BEF15629 for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 03:09:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole@xwin.nmhtech.com) Received: by xwin.nmhtech.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 7ED6D2EE1A; Tue, 25 May 1999 03:09:41 -0700 (PDT) Content-Length: 3697 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <037201bea67f$697957d0$1e8e22cb@upstairs> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 03:09:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Harrington To: Andrew Subject: kernel panic in 3.2 WAS Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, Sergey Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-May-99 My Secret Spies Reported That Andrew wrote: > A friend of mine who runs a web hosting and anonymous ftp > server has been running 3.1 Release for about 2 months without > even so much as a reboot . The box is on a 100mbit connection > at a data center. He also has a shell service on the same box. > The box recently set a record for the amount > of data served from any client at the data center. The second closest > client which has a whole room full of SGI and SUN machines was > only using about half as much data. >=20 > The machine is a P2-450 with x3 16 GIG IBM ide drives > and 512 meg ram. >=20 > He has just changed another box in a different country to FreeBSD > 3.2 release from Solaris 2.7 ( x86 ) because of problems. It is now > running 3.2 Release and everything seams great. Solaris 2.7 dosent > like ide drives over 8 gig which isnt good considering IBM make 22 gig > IDE drives now. >=20 > Andrew I too agree that 3.1 was Very stable and 3.2 for most things seems to be O= K so far as I have used it for many things at the ISP I work for. However I hav= e come across a reproducable problem with 3.2. just as Sergey has spoken abou= t, that does not seem to occur in 3.1. I am testing the new FreeBSD port of the Inktomi caching server. The size = of the processes that are used can grow quite large and are multithreaded.=20 I have found that if I set MAXDSIZ and DFLDSIZ too small (like 512*1024*102= 4) I can make the server page fault and reboot by making it work hard. (IE make = the process grow) SO far a setting of (2*1024*1024*1024) for both seems to be quite stable u= nder .any load, but it seems unsettling that rather than kill a process that is demanding too much memory, the kernel page faults. Especially since the pro= cess runs as a user process not as a system process. I am no expert on these things, but I welcome the assistance of anyone wil= ling to help identify the root of this problem to make FreeBSD more stable. Flam= es and put downs about a lack of detail or knowlege like I have seen so far, p= lease send to the linux list of choice to save us both some time please. I use FreeBSD as it is a professional OS with mostly professional people willing = to lend a hand. Thanks BTW Sergey, I realize that you may be frustrated, however sending messages= that are the next best thing to flame bait is not welcome. If you want assistanc= e, ask for it. Offline more information can be shared and the outcome shared w= ith the list. Nicole >=20 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sergey > To: > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 1999 3:37 PM > Subject: Re: [Q] How stable is FreeBSD 3.X ? >=20 >=20 >> Hi! >> >> I've checked this out on good hardware. And now can CLAIM that >> 3.1-R *really* have kernel problems on FreeBSD's "classic" configuration= . >> This bug causes TERRIBLE instability - panic in 24 hours. Even Microsoft= 's >> OSes gives significantly better results >> >> >> >> This is mourning day for me - I CAN'T believe in stability of RELEASES >> any more... >> >> >> With best regards, Sergey. >> >> |\ __ /| (`\ | o_o |__ ) ) =20 // \\ =20 nicole@nmhtech.com | http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org | http://www.dangermouse.org -------------------------(((---(((----------------------- =20 - Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD - - Strong enough for a man - But made for a Woman - - I'm not ADD - I'm just Multithreaded - ---------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message