Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 10:32:14 +0200 From: Claus Guttesen <kometen@gmail.com> To: Blaz Zupan <blaz@si.freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing. Message-ID: <b41c755205070601324738144e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050706093012.M3376@titanic.medinet.si> References: <42BF8815.6090909@atopia.net> <20050627081933.GA97832@cell.sick.ru> <42C16394.4040904@atopia.net> <1119971279.36316.45.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> <42C16C0E.9090002@atopia.net> <20050629100535.GC27557@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050701184352.GA177@xor.obsecurity.org> <20050706093012.M3376@titanic.medinet.si>
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> I'm experiencing the same crashes as Matt, but on 5.4-RELEASE-p3. The mac= hine > is a HP DL380 G3 and it is heavily loaded (postfix mail server running > amavisd-new with antivirus and antispam, so it has heavy IO and CPU load)= . It > does not survive more than a couple of hours, while it is rock stable run= ning > 4.11. We have four machines like this, three of them are now again runnin= g > 4.11 and we left the fourth one at 5.4. We have two other DL380 servers > working on our outbound mail queue, but they are not SMP and they are roc= k > stable on 5.4. > > CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.06GHz (3049.93-MHz 686-class CPU) > Origin =3D "GenuineIntel" Id =3D 0xf29 Stepping =3D 9 > Features=3D0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR= ,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> > Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs Have you tried to disable HTT? It's doesn't give you alot, and in some cases it decreases performance. regards Claus
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