Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 11:20:18 -0600 From: "Adam Maloney" <adam@whee.org> To: <guy@device.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMP forcing crash/reboot in 4.9-STABLE Message-ID: <007601c3c58b$358c0280$41c3c3cf@office.sihope.com> References: <XFMail.20031218162414.guy@device.dyndns.org>
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Try searching groups.google.com for "freebsd smp 4.9" - I saw a couple of threads about the problem when it hangs at that exact point, when I was searching on my issue. But they still may be related. ----- Original Message ----- From: <guy@device.dyndns.org> To: "Adam Maloney" <adam@whee.org> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:24 AM Subject: RE: SMP forcing crash/reboot in 4.9-STABLE > On 18-Dec-2003 Adam Maloney wrote: > > We have a 4-way P3/500 Xeon system running FreeBSD. We had been running > > 4.8-STABLE for a number of months with SMP enabled and no issues. Around > > 25-November we moved to 4.9-STABLE. The system ran without SMP enabled > > until Tuesday, when we enabled SMP and APIC_IO, rebuilt the kernel, and > > rebooted. Then about every 30 minutes the system would reboot. We moved > > back to single-processor (using the source updated on 25-Nov) and it has > > worked since. > > > > So we synced source last night and tried enabling SMP again this morning. > > We are still seeing the same problem. We have switched back to a non-SMP > > kernel (from last night's sync) and are running fine. > > > > Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas where to look? There is nothing in > > messages or dmesg about the crash, and I haven't been able to catch it at > > the console to see if there's a message there. > > This may be related to my problem, though the symptom is different. > > Since the same time (around the end of november) i tried many times to > build a SMP-enabled 4.9-STABLE kernel for my bi-athlon machine. It always > hangs (no error msg, total iresponsiveness) at the end of the kernel boot > (just before mounting filesystems). > > I then reverted my cvs tree to use -RELEASE, and all is fine. > > I did not yet try a non-SMP kernel. I'll do that asap. > > -- > Guy >
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