Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 10:11:06 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ... Message-ID: <20060626100949.G24406@fledge.watson.org> In-Reply-To: <E1FuYsL-000HT3-H2@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk> References: <E1FuYsL-000HT3-H2@dilbert.firstcallgroup.co.uk>
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On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Pete French wrote: >> 'k, I'm starting to get the impression that FreeBSD 6.x is evil ... at >> least as far as Dual-PIII servers are concerned ... on a machine that, > > I can't comment on your other problems - but I have a dual PIII server and > say a 30% performance increase when moving to 6.x over 5.x ... and it's been > rock solid. I only run releases on that box though, but it does perform > really nicely on PIII duals when you can get it stable. Seems a shame that > you are having so many problems. I'm also running 6.x on several dual-PIII without problems. An issue local to Marc's setup is definitely indicated. Given the failure mode, I would be worried about a potential hardware issue, although subtle hardware and subtle system software problems are sometimes difficult to distinguish. Robert N M Watson Computer Laboratory University of Cambridge
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