mpd5/Netgraph issues after upgrading to 7.4

[Eugene Grosbein]

On 11.04.2011 21:37, Przemyslaw Frasunek wrote:

>> You should really consider moving to amd64 if your hardware supports it.
>> For routing with mpd and serving lots of users there is no reason to stay with i386.
> 
> Yes, hardware is pretty new and standard - I use Intel SR1630GP platforms on all
> of my PPPoE access servers, so there shouldn't be any problems with amd64.
> 
> But I'm quite unsure if moving to amd64 will help with my current mpd related
> issues and always there is a risk that another problems may appear.

You obviously fighting kernel memory problems - amd64 takes lots of such problems away.

> So I'd rather stabilize my current configuration on 7.4/i386.
> 
> BTW. Few months ago I was still running 6.4, which was much more stable than
> 7.x. I was experimenting with 8.1, but kernel panics occured almost every day.
> So I decided to move to 7.4.

I understand. My 8.1 routers have been panicing almost every day too
before glebius' fixes. With these fixes, my panics have disapeared totally.

Eugene Grosbein