Date: Tue, 5 Oct 1999 11:42:05 -0400 (EDT) From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca> Cc: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: More on the crashes already mentioned. Message-ID: <14330.7245.16192.651574@trooper.velocet.net> In-Reply-To: <199910051425.HAA17380@cwsys.cwsent.com> References: <14329.64871.579761.476450@trooper.velocet.net> <199910051425.HAA17380@cwsys.cwsent.com>
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>>>>> "Cy" == Cy Schubert <- ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>> writes: Cy> In message <14329.64871.579761.476450@trooper.velocet.net>, David Cy> Gilbert write s: >> Well... the same machine had an 80 day uptime before the upgrade >> (running 3.0-RELEASE). We have also tried alternate motherboards. >> Now... all this hardware is K6-2/400's --- it appears that >> substantial amounts of new code playing with processor bits has >> been introduced between 3.2 and 3.3 Cy> You may wish to try a different processor, not another K6. Your Cy> configuration may be exercising some undocumented or unknown Cy> deviation from the Pentium family. Cy> If you know what "playing with processor bits" code have been Cy> introduced, you may want to try to remove them and build a new Cy> kernel or cvsup to the date prior to when the "bits" were added to Cy> 3.2-STABLE. This should give everyone a better understanding of Cy> which "bits" might be the cause. Well... I've reverted to a 3.2-RELEASE kernel... which appears to be more stable (more on that later). I have a celery here... which I might introduce, but I'd prefer to solve the problem :). I'm submitting a massive PR on this in a sec with lots o' tracebacks. I'll have to dig through the cvs tree to see what date those changes were done on --- but in general, I'm talking about the K6 "PVCC" (sp?) stuff... where 3.3 kernels talk about this extra bit and 3.2 kernels don't Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Velocet Communications. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dgilbert@velocet.net | equal if and only if they | |http://www.velocet.net/~dgilbert | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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