FreeBSD/i386 may panic under heavy load on SMP machines

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Mon Jan 17 14:51:38 PST 2005


On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 01:32:10PM -0600, J.D. Bronson wrote:
> At 01:08 PM 01/17/2005, you wrote:
> >> The cvsup I am using is:
> >>
> >> *default host=cvsup8.us.FreeBSD.org
> >> *default base=/var/db
> >> *default prefix=/usr
> >> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5
> >> *default delete use-rel-suffix
> >> *default compress
> >>
> >>
> >> ..doesnt this track STABLE and if so, why didnt I get these updated 
> >files?
> >
> >You did, weeks ago.
> 
> 
> Thats what I had thought. But the version numbers are much older than the 
> ones in the announcement.
> 
> Once I changed the tag from tag=RELENG_5 to tag=RELENG_5_3 then and only
> then did I get the correct files.
> 
> Prior to that, I tried to delete /var/db/sup and then even /usr/src
> and still I was not seeing the updated files.
> 
> I have no idea why, but I am glad that I have things working now.

The errata notice is for users of 5.3-RELEASE and not users of
5.3-STABLE.  Users of -STABLE branches are expected to monitor the CVS
commit logs if they're interested in merges of particular bug fixes.

Kris

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