FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2/amd64 crashes on SMP under load

Anton Shterenlikht mexas at bristol.ac.uk
Thu Jul 30 17:09:37 UTC 2009


On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:02:29AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> 
> On Jul 30, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
> >By the way, are these two FreeBSD docs up to date:
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING
> >
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
> >
> >In particular, it is still true that minidump is a default dump type?
> 
> ia64 doesn't yet have minidumps. In fact, changes to GDB that
> happened a year ago or so broke the ability to read ia64 core
> files. I plan on implementing minidumps after 8.0-RELEASE.

you mean, even if I get a dump, I wouldn't be able to read it?

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