From owner-freebsd-smp Thu Aug 30 13:54:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-smp@freebsd.org Received: from bumper.jellybaby.net (bumper.jellybaby.net [194.159.247.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA7A537B401; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 13:54:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simond@bumper.jellybaby.net) Received: (from simond@localhost) by bumper.jellybaby.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) id UAA08885; Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:51:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from simond) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2001 20:50:59 +0100 From: simond@irrelevant.org To: Alex Varju Cc: Jos Vissers , freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freezes in 4.4 RC on SMP kernel Message-ID: <20010830205058.A7910@irrelevant.org> References: <20010829101307.A44575@tunix.nl> <20010829094028.S60349-100000@snapple.webct.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20010829094028.S60349-100000@snapple.webct.com>; from varju@webct.com on Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:45:09AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Aug 29, 2001 at 09:45:09AM -0700, Alex Varju wrote: > This may be the problem I am seeing on my machine, as well, although I > haven't had time to fully diagnose the problems. I thought that I had bad > ram (my single processor did indeed have bad ram), but the freezing still > continued after taking the new memory out of my dual. > > I'm using an Asus motherboard, dual P3-450, 256M ram. 4.3-release-p14 has > no problems. 4.4-rc freezes occasionally. > > I run X right on the SMP machine. There are multiple NFS mounts to other > machines, as well as NFS exports that others use. Several Windows > machines use the SMP machine as an rsh server for checking out cvs > sources. Accounts are NIS based here, as well. I tend to have some problems with NFS and APM when used on my SMP box, turning them both off has stopped any of my hangs (also the dnetc client sometimes caused a hang too, which is a bit annoying :) -- Simon Dick simond@irrelevant.org "Why do I get this urge to go bowling everytime I see Tux?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message