FreeBSD 6.x CVSUP today crashes with zero load ...

[Nate Lawson]

Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 25 Jun 2006, Pete French wrote:
> 
>>> 'k, I'm starting to get the impression that FreeBSD 6.x is evil ... 
>>> at least as far as Dual-PIII servers are concerned ... on a machine 
>>> that,
>>
>> I can't comment on your other problems - but I have a dual PIII server 
>> and say a 30% performance increase when moving to 6.x over 5.x ... and 
>> it's been rock solid. I only run releases on that box though, but it 
>> does perform really nicely on PIII duals when you can get it stable. 
>> Seems a shame that you are having so many problems.
> 
> I'm also running 6.x on several dual-PIII without problems.  An issue 
> local to Marc's setup is definitely indicated.  Given the failure mode, 
> I would be worried about a potential hardware issue, although subtle 
> hardware and subtle system software problems are sometimes difficult to 
> distinguish.

If it passes the memtest x86 iso, let me know.  Also, make sure there 
are no overrides of memory size in loader.conf.


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Nate