Stability problems with 5.3-Release

[Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC]

On Apr 21, 2005, at 7:42 PM, Christopher McGee wrote:

> Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote:
>
>>
>> On Apr 21, 2005, at 4:22 PM, Chris McGee wrote:
>>
>>> I've got 2 identical boxes (Supermicro sys-6023P-8R) running with 
>>> ZCR adaptec cards with 6 73Gig seagate scsi drives, 4 Gigs of ram, 
>>> and dual 2.4 Ghz Xeons.  Both of these machines are running 
>>> 5.3-Release-p8.  The usually run for a day, give or take, and then 
>>> they crash.  The just deadlock, no console response, no nothing.  
>>> The get power cycled and they are fine for a little while again.  
>>> These are configured to be mysql database servers.  I can provide 
>>> any information necessary, but i'm stumped and it's causing me a lot 
>>> of heartache now.
>>>
>>
>> What were they running before -p8 ?  And were you having similar 
>> problems?
>>
>> Chad
>>
> Unfortunately, nothing.  These were brand new boxes, installed 5.3 
> from cd, cvsup'd to latest 5.3-Release, and starting installing the 
> few ports we needed.  I can't go to an RC.  The higher powers won't 
> allow running anything but a full release.  It was a pretty big hassle 
> even implementing 5.3 vs 4.x.
>

ok, just wondering if you had updated from a lower -p level of 5.3 or 
5.3-RELEASE with no patches or 5.2.1 or something, so we could see if 
something happened in a recent patch

Chad