Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:09:19 -0500 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Rutger Bevaart <rutger.bevaart@illian.net> Cc: Gino Ruopolo <ginoruopolo@hotmail.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP? Message-ID: <20051125190919.GA54009@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <37161.62.58.16.80.1132921321.squirrel@www.illian.net> References: <BAY16-F286B13CAF8741872B085A3B4500@phx.gbl> <A9565357-D420-49F7-8290-24839CAEAAD2@illian.net> <20051123213916.GA7375@xor.obsecurity.org> <50249.62.58.16.80.1132821908.squirrel@www.illian.net> <20051124202231.GA29868@xor.obsecurity.org> <37161.62.58.16.80.1132921321.squirrel@www.illian.net>
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--fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:22:01PM +0100, Rutger Bevaart wrote: > Hello Kris (& list), >=20 > Thanks for helping the 1750 and 2850 owners on this list. Unfortunately I > cannot find any references to the leak or the fix you are referring to in > the Release errata (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/errata.html). It was in the 5.3 errata, sorry. I don't think it was fixed until after 5.4 though. =20 > We are trying really hard to resolve the stability issues with our Dell > servers and would be very happy to know when the fix for what was > committed. As I said twice already, the stats leak is ***HARMLESS***. It only gives the wrong value to counters that are unused for anything except reporting to the user. > No way we'll be upgrading to 6.0 without knowing exactly what > is going on (remembering broken 4.10 -> 5.3 systems) ... 5.4 -> 6.0 is really a very minor jump. But if you're not willing to even test it out on one machine to see whether it resolves your problems, you'll likely just have to get used to the instability until someone can identify your problem and then fix it. Kris --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDh2FfWry0BWjoQKURAoPlAJ9KXPSDQ633F54Czo3TrxJcvCNO+wCgwoQ6 uGWsD0dyFUgDwmy7UoklJE4= =LcsQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fUYQa+Pmc3FrFX/N--
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