From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 11 16:33:37 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206651065672 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:33:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from egrosbein@rdtc.ru) Received: from eg.sd.rdtc.ru (eg.sd.rdtc.ru [62.231.161.221]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81CB88FC13 for ; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:33:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eg.sd.rdtc.ru (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by eg.sd.rdtc.ru (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p3BGXUBu059555; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:33:30 +0700 (NOVST) (envelope-from egrosbein@rdtc.ru) Message-ID: <4DA32D55.8040707@rdtc.ru> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:33:25 +0700 From: Eugene Grosbein User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; ru-RU; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110112 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Przemyslaw Frasunek References: <4D947756.6050808@freebsd.lublin.pl> <4D9F6C71.1040209@frasunek.com> <4DA171BA.9000507@frasunek.com> <4DA1E39C.9090300@rdtc.ru> <4DA23090.8060206@frasunek.com> <20110411054932.GU84445@FreeBSD.org> <4DA2A5AA.4060802@frasunek.com> <4DA2ABFA.7030108@rdtc.ru> <4DA2DD17.6020702@frasunek.com> <4DA2E981.2010302@rdtc.ru> <4DA2EC6F.2040205@frasunek.com> <4DA2EEC0.4040704@rdtc.ru> <4DA31240.6010206@frasunek.com> In-Reply-To: <4DA31240.6010206@frasunek.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "net@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: mpd5/Netgraph issues after upgrading to 7.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:33:37 -0000 On 11.04.2011 21:37, Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote: >> You should really consider moving to amd64 if your hardware supports it. >> For routing with mpd and serving lots of users there is no reason to stay with i386. > > Yes, hardware is pretty new and standard - I use Intel SR1630GP platforms on all > of my PPPoE access servers, so there shouldn't be any problems with amd64. > > But I'm quite unsure if moving to amd64 will help with my current mpd related > issues and always there is a risk that another problems may appear. You obviously fighting kernel memory problems - amd64 takes lots of such problems away. > So I'd rather stabilize my current configuration on 7.4/i386. > > BTW. Few months ago I was still running 6.4, which was much more stable than > 7.x. I was experimenting with 8.1, but kernel panics occured almost every day. > So I decided to move to 7.4. I understand. My 8.1 routers have been panicing almost every day too before glebius' fixes. With these fixes, my panics have disapeared totally. Eugene Grosbein