Stability of RELENG_5_4 with dual Xeon

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 05:57:33PM -0700, Jorge Aldana wrote:
> Well now I don't feel alone.
> 
> 5.2.1, 5.3, 5.4 I've gotten to lock up a workstation, with Nvidia-driver as 
> well though, htt-on, htt-off, only SHED_4BSD . Now with a new NetApp server 
> amd locks up as well but not the whole workstation, mounts to other servers 
> ok, nfs issue. Our FreeBSD count is getting low now due to these issues.
> 
> All I need is a howto on getting the dump for the NFS issue so I can send 
> something but on the lockups are total lockups, nothing in the logs its 
> like somebody shot a freeze gun on the system, a hard reboot then its back 
> (after a fsck on the system disk) but nothing in the log as if time 
> stopped....

See the developers handbook, which has a chapter on kernel debugging.

Kris
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