Date: Wed, 3 Sep 1997 01:00:28 +0300 From: Antti-Pekka Liedes <apl@mail.cs.hut.fi> To: Steve Passe <smp@csn.net> Cc: randyd <randyd@nconnect.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: serious instability with -current kernel Message-ID: <19970903010028.15858@hutcs.cs.hut.fi> In-Reply-To: <199709022151.PAA01279@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>; from Steve Passe on Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 03:51:33PM -0600 References: <19970903004341.41621@hutcs.cs.hut.fi> <199709022151.PAA01279@Ilsa.StevesCafe.com>
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On Tue, Sep 02, 1997 at 03:51:33PM -0600, Steve Passe wrote: > Hi, > > > Thanks, removing the screen saver solved my problem. I had made world > > pretty recently, but obviously there was still something out of sync. > > Obviously, it would be nice to know the exact nature of the problem. Since > UP doesn't show the same problems its probably not a simple sync problem. > > Is the UP kernel you successfully tested with as new as the SMP kernel > that fails? > > If not, could you build one with the same sources as the failing SMP kernel > and see if the screensaver lkm then causes it to fail? > I have UP and SMP kernels build from the very same sources, no other difference but UP has all the SMP-options disabled. When I used the SMP kernel with screensaver lkm loaded, it crashed within about five minutes from booting, usually in about two. With UP kernel I didn't have any problems for half an hour, with screensaver loaded. Right now I'm succesfully running SMP kernel without any lkms loaded. And all kernels mentioned are from very fresh sources, cvsup'd a few hours ago. > -- > Steve Passe | powered by > smp@csn.net | Symmetric MultiProcessor FreeBSD > -- Antti-Pekka Liedes * apl@IRC * In two hells there's JMT 6 B 406 * apl@iki.fi * one hell too many 02150 ESPOO * apl@apocalypse.tky.hut.fi * - Lucifer +358 - 9 - 468 3121 * +358 - 40 - 5873 593 * (in God's Army)
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