FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing

[Matt Juszczak]

>
> Hi,
>
> I have something like 20 boxes (Dell Power Edge 370, Fujitsu-Siemens PRIMERGY 
> 200 and couple of dual AMD64 Fujitsu-Siemens) servers running 5.4-STABLE. So 
> far, only machine that I have experienced freezing and was unable to get 
> droped into KDB or to get any sort of vmcore was Dell Power Edge 1600SC (dual 
> Xeon 2.4GHz with 4Gb). I have noticed that since it was running squid-2.5 
> linked to pthread when I have switched to oops which was compiled on 5.2.1 
> and linked to libc_r that machine stoped crashing (HTT disabled, IPFILTER 
> also disabled configuration GENERIC). However, I have decided to experiment 
> and upgraded to 6.0-CURRENT and so far I haven't experienced any problems - 
> except one panic caused by linux.ko and running edonkeyclc for linux (it was 
> just experiment to see if it will work on 6.0-CURRENT). I suppose that there 
> might be some problems related to SMP on 5.4 and I don't know what for are 
> you using problematic servers and I don't know if it is smart to use 
> 6.0-CURRENT but so far I have positive experince with it on problematic 
> server and would rather stay with FBSD then switching to NetBSD or OpenBSD.


With what you're saying, maybe my problem is that I use IPFILTER and maybe 
it isn't an SMP problem?  Should I switch to PF?

-Matt