4.10-RELEASE and -STABLE crashing regularly under load

[Brian Feldman]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2004 at 10:34:57PM +0200, Tamas TEVESZ wrote:
> 
> hi folks,
> 
> [i've posted the following message to -bugs@ a while ago, but
> then was directed here by a friend freebsder. while reposting, i
> also corrected some minor facts i missed in the previous post]
> 
> i have a dell poweredge 2600 (4G ram, 2x2.8ghz xeon cpus, some disk,
> full dmesg below), running a heavily loaded website (apache13, php, cgi,
> pure-ftpd). this is a brand new 4.10-release install, brought to sync
> with -stable, both exhibit the exact same problem), which every once
> in a while crashes badly. 4.10-R did that every ~2.5 days, 4.10-S did
> it for the first time after one day. (before that, system was running
> 4.9-stable on a poweredge 4600 with one xeon cpu, no ht, no smp,
> no nothing like that, and was very stable).
> 
> i cannot entirely rule out bad hardware as this is a brand new system,
> but we haven't had many problems with dell stuff before.
> 
> everything i think to be related is included below; if anything else
> is needed just please tell so.

Isn't this the board that apparently can't do HTT without crashing?
Try disabling HTT completely instead, as I don't think the sysctl
does that.

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