FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

[Gino Ruopolo]

Both the servers where I changed the nic to an old intel 10/100 reached a 
week of uptime!
I'm seriously thinking about a problem with the "em" ethernet card driver.

later,
gino


>From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
>To: Rutger Bevaart <rutger.bevaart at illian.net>
>CC: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>, freebsd-stable at freebsd.org,Gino 
>Ruopolo <ginoruopolo at hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?
>Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2005 14:09:19 -0500
>
>On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 01:22:01PM +0100, Rutger Bevaart wrote:
> > Hello Kris (& list),
> >
> > Thanks for helping the 1750 and 2850 owners on this list. Unfortunately 
>I
> > cannot find any references to the leak or the fix you are referring to 
>in
> > the Release errata (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/errata.html).
>
>It was in the 5.3 errata, sorry.  I don't think it was fixed until
>after 5.4 though.
>
> > We are trying really hard to resolve the stability issues with our Dell
> > servers and would be very happy to know when the fix for what was
> > committed.
>
>As I said twice already, the stats leak is ***HARMLESS***.  It only
>gives the wrong value to counters that are unused for anything except
>reporting to the user.
>
> > No way we'll be upgrading to 6.0 without knowing exactly what
> > is going on (remembering broken 4.10 -> 5.3 systems) ...
>
>5.4 -> 6.0 is really a very minor jump.  But if you're not willing to
>even test it out on one machine to see whether it resolves your
>problems, you'll likely just have to get used to the instability until
>someone can identify your problem and then fix it.
>
>Kris


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