Re: 5.2-CURRENT constantly crashing

I experience the same dead freezes about on average 1x per day on my Dell D600
laptop. Although I'm really not sure what's causing it. Has anyone seen the
problems go away? I really notice the problem when I'm using some more memory
intensive apps like JRE or Mozilla Firefox, etc..

Does having a debugging version of the kernel help at all to diagnose these
issues?

-george

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "DrVince" <drvince_at_anonymnet.net>
Newsgroups: mpc.lists.freebsd.current,muc.lists.freebsd.current
Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 8:02 AM
Subject: Re: 5.2-CURRENT constantly crashing


> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004 11:23:53 +0200, Jan Lentfer wrote
> > i am running 5.2-CURRENT on an old 4x PPRO (200) Amdahl EnVista Server.
> > The system is constantly crashing under heavy load for about 2-3
> > month now. Since all drives are connected to a Mylex Raid Controller,
> >  I can't get any kernel dumps :(.
>
> I've been reporting this for a while.  I have all new hardware and running 2
> IDE local drives, nothing's faulty.  Everything is working fine now that I
have
> downgraded to 5.2.1. I have no kernel dump either since it's a problem with
> software disk write buffer. But, at least, you get a message of what could
be
> the problem, I only got dead freezes.  For me, it wasn't heavy loads that
was
> crashing it, but only buffers getting full.
>
> At the moment, all I can say to help is, if you use dummynet or altq, be
sure
> to have HZ=1000 in your kernel.  But that won't help you much because your
> server was working fine.
>
> Good luck,
> DrVince
> DrVince_at_anonymnet.net
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