Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 09:33:07 -0400 From: "James E. Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net> To: Suresh Rajagopalan <sraja@cinenet.net> Cc: freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMP freezes on 3.2-STABLE Message-ID: <37C93692.EB93AC98@thehousleys.net> References: <Pine.GSO.3.96.990828234142.11606A-100000@hermosa.cinenet.net>
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Suresh Rajagopalan wrote: > ... > The machines are very busy web servers and simply freeze randomly after > 2-5 days of uptime. There is no response from the console at > the point of freeze. I cannot get it to dump core either. > > Machines are PIII-450 on ASUS P2B-D motherboards with 256Mb of RAM & 800M > swap. All machines are NFS clients mounting off a Solaris X86 server. > The output of mptable is attached below. I've tried MP 1.4 as well as > 1.1. > > I don't know if this is a problem with 3.x in general, and I have read > about larger sites like yahoo running smp-stable. If some of you are > running SMP in a busy web/nfs enviroment, I'd love to hear from you. > The problem is probably NFS. There has been lots of discussion on -hackers IIRC about heavy NFS traffic over the last three months. You might try checking the archives. Jim -- James E. Housley PGP: 1024/03983B4D System Supply, Inc. 2C 3F 3A 0D A8 D8 C3 13 Pager: pagejim@notepage.com 7C F0 B5 BF 27 8B 92 FE "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message
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