Paul Mather wrote:
Mark,
When you do, look for PREEMPTION. That should speed up the search. :-)
Yes, I searched the mailing lsts and found it, deleted #define
PREEMPTION from sys/i38i6/include/param.h, rebuilt my kernel and the
machine has been up for 13 hours now :-)
Only thing is the screensaver hangs after ~5 minutes (that had me
worried the first time it happened), but that's not really important.
Seriously, though, -CURRENT has been going through some major
instability the last fortnight or so. One thesis is that the
pre-emption code added has either introduced or uncovered some obscure
bugs. The net effect has been random freezes---most often reported is
when under load or doing something (e.g., rendering a complicated page)
using Mozilla, or when using XMMS.
The two apps I probably use the most!
One suggestion, until the culprit has been found, is to rebuild without
PREEMPTION (undef it in /usr/src/sys/i386/include/param.h). That has
certainly stopped the freezes in my case.
Me too.
If you're running -CURRENT, it is advisable to subscribe to the
freebsd-current mailing list---if nothing else but to be apprised of
ongoing problems like this, or to get a heads-up about possible future
instability caused by major repository/functionality changes. (For
example, today there was a heads-up about the GCC 3.4 import being done
[which seems to have broken things temporarily].)
I have done now. I'm only running -CURRENT because this is a dual CPU
box and when I built it back in December what I was readin on the lists
suggested that 5-STABLE was only a few months away and, since SMP
support in 5.x is superior to 4.x, I figured upgrading
5-CURRENT->5-STABLE would be easier than 4-STABLE->%-STABLE. As soon as
we get a 5-STABLE that's what I'll run.
Thanks for your input.
Regards,
Mark
Cheers,
Paul.
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