5.3 release crash

[Kris Kennaway]

On Tue, Feb 08, 2005 at 10:05:13AM -0800, Payment Online wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 09:57:19 -0800, Payment Online <snacktime2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I just had a 5.3-release-p2 box crash on me.  This box is in
> > production so I don't have any debugging information whatsoever.
> > However, I'm hoping someone could tell me if what I think caused it is
> > possible/probable.
> > 
> > Not long before it crashed I was running some stress tests against a
> > new threaded server I was building in python by running 5-10 clients
> > simultaneously for about an hour.    Since this box has been stable
> > for almost a year without any issues at all, I really doubt that it's
> > a coincidence.   Can anyone think of what issues with threads could
> > cause a panic?
> > 
> > Chris
> > 
> One more thing, the threaded application was running in a jail.  Not
> sure if that could make any difference.

Unfortunately you probably need to obtain the debugging information in
order to diagnose this.  Setting up crashdumps isn't hard and doesn't
interfere with production machines.

Kris

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