FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing

[Matt Juszczak]

> Matt,
>
> Sadly the FreeBSD guys will need more info before a fix is possible. I would 
> suggest you revert back to FreeBSD 5.3, if you can. Even if you get a patch 
> you'd want to do a whole lot of regression testing before putting it in 
> production as it might break something else.

Gary,

Do you know what the chances are that this problem I'm experiencing is SMP 
related?  I don't mind turning off SMP, and I guess I could for now to see 
if that runs stable.  Otherwise, I think we're going to switch to OpenBSD, 
because these crashes are occuring so frequently (twice a day)... and as 
far as the patch and regression testing, if someone sent me a patch right 
now I would put it on the server, because the server already crashes 
daily, so a faulty patch wouldn't change much :-(.

I appreciate your response.  I'm going to do a little more research today 
before i make my decision on a platform switch.

-Matt