From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 26 11:12:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17C2316A401; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:12:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E68F43D7B; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:12:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32989290C99; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:12:10 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01111-02; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:12:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-7-151-244.eastlink.ca [71.7.151.244]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF278290C98; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:12:09 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8A6503E7DF; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:12:17 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 837D73CF50; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:12:17 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:12:17 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: <20060626100949.G24406@fledge.watson.org> Message-ID: <20060626081029.L1114@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20060626100949.G24406@fledge.watson.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freeBSD.org, Pete French Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:12:17 -0000 On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Pete French wrote: > >>> 'k, I'm starting to get the impression that FreeBSD 6.x is evil ... at >>> least as far as Dual-PIII servers are concerned ... on a machine that, >> >> I can't comment on your other problems - but I have a dual PIII server and >> say a 30% performance increase when moving to 6.x over 5.x ... and it's >> been rock solid. I only run releases on that box though, but it does >> perform really nicely on PIII duals when you can get it stable. Seems a >> shame that you are having so many problems. > > I'm also running 6.x on several dual-PIII without problems. An issue local > to Marc's setup is definitely indicated. Given the failure mode, I would be > worried about a potential hardware issue, although subtle hardware and subtle > system software problems are sometimes difficult to distinguish. Well, I've been trying to do it 'the hardway' ... went back to the original kernel, and am slowly upgrading forward ... I'm currently running a June 15th kernel with none of the problems that I was seeing before ... I'm just in the process of running my third 'make -j3 buildworld' on this kernel, and its clean ... going to go forward to June 22nd next, see if that too is clean *cross fingers* ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664