From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 23 14:35:15 2005 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 86E7C16A41F for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:35:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1.sentex.ca [64.7.153.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E71943DB5 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:34:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from pumice3.sentex.ca (pumice3.sentex.ca [64.7.153.26]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jANEYZPv007084 for ; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:34:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from lava.sentex.ca (pyroxene.sentex.ca [199.212.134.18]) by pumice3.sentex.ca (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id jANEYZ2Q080092; Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:34:35 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simian.sentex.net (simeon.sentex.ca [192.168.43.27]) by lava.sentex.ca (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id jANEYYwB061146 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:34:34 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <6.2.3.4.0.20051123093315.0322d048@64.7.153.2> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.2.3.4 Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:34:47 -0500 To: kama From: Mike Tancsa In-Reply-To: <20051123153018.V57888@ns1.as.pvp.se> References: <20051123134710.G57888@ns1.as.pvp.se> <6.2.3.4.0.20051123080932.085e9138@64.7.153.2> <20051123153018.V57888@ns1.as.pvp.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.51 on 64.7.153.18 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 64.7.153.26 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.0 Stable reboots randomly during high 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: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 14:35:16 -0000 At 09:33 AM 23/11/2005, kama wrote: >The system crashes without polling enabled. That I added afterwards. With >it enabled it crashes not so often as without polling. > >I'll try a GENERIC kernel with debuging enabled. The kernel option doesnt install any debugging into your running kernel, it just builds an additional kernel (called kernel.debug) with debugging symbols that you can compare the crash dump against. In other words, it wont hurt performance. ---Mike >/Bjorn > >On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Mike Tancsa wrote: > > > At 08:04 AM 23/11/2005, kama wrote: > > > > >I have a HP DL380G3 Dual 2.4 w HT disabled. > > > > > > Polling and SMP is only a recent thing, as is polling support for the > > bge. I would try disabling that. In terms of seeing why its crashing, > > > > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html > > > > Basically, > > make sure > > > > > > makeoptions DEBUG=-g #Build kernel with gdb(1) > debug symbols > > > > is in your kernel config > > add > > dumpdev="/dev/da0s1b" # Device name to crashdump to (or NO). > > dumpdir="/var/crash" # Directory where crash dumps are to be stored > > > > to /etc/rc.conf assuming da0s1b is your swap. Install the new kernel > > and reboot. > > > > When and if it crashes again, > > gdb -k kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 > > > > type bt full > > > > from the debugger and post the results. > > > > ---Mike > >