On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 07:58:05PM +0400, Maxim Konovalov wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, 08:45-0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > > On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 04:22:40PM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote: > > > I had one of these [kernel panics] a couple of weeks ago or so... > > > ...[upgrade to -STABLE as of 15 June; repeat panic]... > > > > The message to which I'm replying (posted to -stable) has the > > particulars about the panic in question, and the machine in question is > > still sitting at the DDB prompt, if anyone wishes to work with me on > > that. > > > > But the reason for this message is to report that I upgraded the other > > test machines -- identical confguration: 2x3 GHz Xeons w/ 4 GB RAM; > > kernel config is called "SMP_PAE_DDB" for a fairly good reason -- to > > today's -CURRENT, then started the same test that cause -STABLE to crash > > & burn within a couple of minutes. > > > > That was 30 minutes ago; the test is still running on > > > > FreeBSD localhost 7.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #1: Fri Jun 16 07:28:18 > > PDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP_PAE_DDB i386 > > > > As I commented in email to some colleagues, "color me surprised." > > > > I've suggested to the vendor (the program under test on the box is > > from a vendor, built under & for FreeBSD 5.x; I'm using the > > misc/compat5x port) that they consider trying this themselves, and > > perhaps also take advantage of John Birrell's work to date on the > > FreeBSD port of DTrace. > > > > I'm still not too keen to run a production workload on a -CURRENT > > platform. I don't know if whatever is causing -CURRENT to keep running > > while -STABLE dies is an MFC candidate, but it seems to me that > > identifying the salient change(s) would be helpful in figuring that out. > > > > Any suggestions for how to go about doing that? > > "trace" in ddb would be good start. Do you really need PAE? The real problem is that trace does not work. Original message contains the details. It is either NULL-pointer function call (most likely), or stack array overflow.
I already sent the OP the instructions how to proceed. And waiting for response.
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