Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 11:11:09 +0100 From: Ceri Davies <setantae@submonkey.net> To: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.9 stability update Message-ID: <20030922101109.GI342@submonkey.net> In-Reply-To: <20030921133858.GG342@submonkey.net> References: <3F6A98F3.7080801@freebsd.org> <20030920234025.AA15D2A7EA@canning.wemm.org> <20030921133858.GG342@submonkey.net>
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 02:38:58PM +0100, Ceri Davies wrote:
> > Scott Long wrote:
> > > All,
> > >=20
> > > We'd like to get a new poll on the stability and readiness of 4.9. T=
he
> > > belief is that the last of the PAE-induced instability was resolved on
> > > August 31. Is anyone still experiencing unusual crashes, corruption,
> > > etc, on a system that is running with up-to-date sources? Now is the
> > > time to speak up and get the problems resolved so that we can make the
> > > deadline by next weekend. Any new testing would be highly appreciate=
d,
> > > especially in reduced-memory configurations and of course >4GB PAE
> > > configurations.
>=20
> I have a machine with 20MB of memory which consistently panics when runni=
ng
> "portsdb -Uu". So far I haven't captured one with a matching debug kerne=
l,
> a situation which I've now corrected. One thing of note is that so far a=
ll
> the vmcores have been exactly the same size (a number which I also forget=
at
> present). Now that I've gotten the machine setup with a debug kernel and
> matching source I'm going to trigger a few panics and post results here. =
That
> will take a while (~5 hours per panic; it's a slow machine).
False alarm; this seems to be corrected with an up to date build.
Ceri
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