Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-23 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 6/23/05, Matt Juszczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Personally, I would update to RELENG_5 as of today. There are a lot of > > bug fixes and its quite solid.. > > Did the upgrade earlier to two of five machines (the ones that were > crashing). We'll see what happens :) Thanks! > > Any

Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-22 Thread Matt Juszczak
Personally, I would update to RELENG_5 as of today. There are a lot of bug fixes and its quite solid.. Did the upgrade earlier to two of five machines (the ones that were crashing). We'll see what happens :) Thanks! Any planned date for 5.5-RELEASE?

Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:14:52 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: >That's exactly our config. SMP, 4 gb RAM, HT was enabled, no longer. >Should I upgrade to 5.4-STABLE? Is there a bug ? Is 5.4-STABLE >"stable" enough? :) Also, if I cvsup to 5.4-STABLE right now, would I >be a

Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-22 Thread Matt Juszczak
I had same situation with to different high loaded servers (both SMP, with 8Gb of ram, and HT enabled,), with 5.4 Release, after disabeling HT and cvsup OS to 5.4-stable all working fine without any problems, last reboot was 28 days ago. That's exactly our config. SMP, 4 gb RAM, HT was

Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-22 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 22, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Matt Juszczak wrote: The vast majority of panics are hardware-related. It is rare nowadays for a usermode program to make the system panic. In particular you said the problem happens more under load. That really points even more to a hardware problem - b

Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-22 Thread Matt Juszczak
The vast majority of panics are hardware-related. It is rare nowadays for a usermode program to make the system panic. In particular you said the problem happens more under load. That really points even more to a hardware problem - bad CPU cache ram, bad ram, scsi termination, that sort of th

Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-22 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 22, 2005, at 3:07 AM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: Matt Juszczak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:49 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much O

RE: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-22 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
>-Original Message- >From: Matt Juszczak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 10:49 AM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: RE: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much > > > > >On Mo

Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-20 Thread Matt Juszczak
I would start by disabling Hyperthreading in the BIOS. It doesnt really have much benefit with the default scheduler (might make some things slower), and seems to cause problems. ---Mike But I have hyperthreading disabled in the sysctl variable for hyperthreading (can't remember

Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-20 Thread Matt Juszczak
Attached is the dmesg as requested Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p1 #0: Mon May 16 21:25:42 EDT 2005 [EM

Re: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-20 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 20, 2005, at 11:48 AM, Matt Juszczak wrote: On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Please post dmesg output from both systems. The systems end up crashing so I can't do a dmesg or do you mean a general dmesg when they are stable? Probably just a standard one so pe

RE: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-20 Thread Matt Juszczak
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Please post dmesg output from both systems. The systems end up crashing so I can't do a dmesg or do you mean a general dmesg when they are stable? Here is the output from Caliban: http://paste.atopia.net/126. The machine crashed again

RE: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much....

2005-06-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
Please post dmesg output from both systems. Ted >-Original Message- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matt Juszczak >Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 1:56 AM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: FreeBSD Machines dieing, we've tried so much > > >Hi all,