Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 07:27:10 -0600 (MDT) From: Brad Midgley <junkmail@pht.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: 2.0.5-950622-SNAP on a big machine Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950728072214.6046A-100000@exodus.pht.com>
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(sorry if you see this twice, but I think it was rejected since I wasn't yet on the list.) Hi all, I just upgraded from a 2.0 snap to this version on our ftp/www site. I was mainly upgrading for stability and so we could have a perl that wouldn't fail its self-tests. machine: pci p60 w/96mb ram, 5 4gig drives (quantum, seagate) and 2 2gig drives (all scsi), buslogic scsi, 3com ethernet. kernel configs: users=128, options "NMBCLUSTERS=2048", disabled a lot of things, including bounce-buffers, ide, cdrom, iso9660. some problems now: after only about 12 hours of uptime, the system virtually locked up with messages about bt0: buffer full (the system was still pingable, great). None of the errors were logged (I should have expected that) so I don't have them verbatim. After another 12 hours it spontaneously rebooted. (nothing in the log but I wasn't even watching the machine) The machine refuses to NFS mount linux-exported drives, claiming the directory is a stale nfs handle. I believe we upgraded the linux nfs server about 3 months ago to whatever was current. it appears that freebsd only sees 64 of the 96 mb ram on the machine. the bios self-tests on boot see it all. How do I monitor ram/swap usage on a running system? the machine had an smc card which wasn't recognized by the new system. to be more accurate, I prepped the boot drive on a machine with a 3com and then changed /etc/sysconfig's network_interfaces="ep0 lo0" to network_interfaces="ed0 lo0" that didn't work in the server itself with the smc, so I swapped the cards themselves around and switched it back. 3com support looks much better btw. Sorry if these are things which have come up--I had to drop this list because my mailbox was buried with new mail all the time. Please cc replies to me, because I may miss them (just resubscribed to the _digest_ version, yay) Is it worthwhile to upgrade to the latest snap, get stock 2.0.5, replace some of my hardware, etc.? Brad
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