Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:02:48 -0600 From: "J.D. Bronson" <jbronson@wixb.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 and HT with SMP Message-ID: <6.2.0.14.2.20041227185957.00c06430@cheyenne.wixb.com> In-Reply-To: <20041228005253.GA40721@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <6.2.0.14.2.20041227184603.00bfee78@cheyenne.wixb.com> <20041228005253.GA40721@xor.obsecurity.org>
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At 06:52 PM 12/27/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > When it did crash, there was no logs and no errors. The servers are on a > > huge stable UPS. Solaris runs on these machines for months. > > > > Anyone see this? anyone have any ideas? > >Try a BIOS update. Many early revisions of BIOSes with HTT support >were buggy. This bios is right up to date....so unless there is some fix out that has not been released....I am at as high as I can be. >Also, make sure you have crashdumps enabled (see handbook and >developers' handbook for more details), because your "randomly >reboot"ing may actually be the server panicking because of a kernel >bug. I had crashdumps enabled and since the machine never crashed even after 2 weeks I Was unable to capture anything. I wanted to add that I had never had any issues running 5.2.1 on this machine even with the same bios. So I am left to think something changed in 5.3 that somehow now I am hitting. I cannot rule out my scsi cards/drives...so this week I will be doing a new install on this hardware with IDE only and then see if anything changes for the better. although as I stated before..solaris runs on these machines for a very long time with no unexpected reboots.... Very hard to find out this error! Jeff
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