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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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Subject: Re: Stability problems vith FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p14
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On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 07:54:25PM +0200, Jurij Kovacic wrote:
> Hello!
>=20
> We are running FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p14 with SMP kernell on one of our=
=20
> servers and are experiencing stability problems; the server has the=20
> tendency to reboot itself for no apparent reason at least once per month.

As you may know, 5.2.1 was an "early adopter release" not intended for
production use.  It's not surprising you have encountered one of the
bugs in it.  Update to a supported, production-quality release like
5.4.

Kris

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