unstable 5.3 boxes

[Mike Tancsa]

At 06:29 PM 05/01/2005, Mitch Parks wrote:
>It seems both my test and production boxes are not stable with 
>5.3-Release. I'm hoping for some insight in how to make at least the 
>production box not crash.
>The crashes have been at different times of the day and I've found no 
>suspicious log activity. At the moment it's been 9 days since the last 
>crash, but it has also crashed in less than a day. ACPI and HT have always 
>been enabled on this box without problems.

I would update to RELENG_5 and disable in the BIOS HTT.  HTT for the most 
part works against you with the current scheduler and seems to add more 
instability.  But there have been quite a few fixes in RELENG_5 that you 
might benefit from.

         ---Mike