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Please don't quote out of sequence. On Sunday, 19 December 2004 at 14:44:22 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > On Sunday, December 19, 2004 2:38 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Sunday, 19 December 2004 at 23:35:18 +0100, Daniel Johansson wrote: >>> It can still be the PSU, don't have any other atm to try with. I'll >>> do some more testing and see if I can get any more info. >> >> There's no point looking at the hardware until you've looked at the >> dump. > > If I may interject, why should he bother? So he can find out what the problem is. > Seems to me his next step should be setting up a new server with a > fresh FreeBSD copy on it, duplicating the 3 jails, then firing off > the 4 periodics and seeing if that blows up. This would take a lot of time and money. And if it blows up, it doesn't buy him anything: he still has to find the cause of the problem. If it doesn't blow up, he doesn't know whether it's going to stay that way or maybe reappear in a while when the constellations are right. Why should he want to do that? > If so that is enough info to file a bug report, and he can then > simply adjust his script so that the periodics aren't all run at the > same time. This is a *VERY* bad idea. If there's a bug, you should fix it, not hide it. Working around it is the Microsoft Way, and hidden bugs often come back to bite you. > If someone else wants to spend the time researching this - like YOU > for example - then great. Why should I want to do it? > From the Project's point of view, his problems aren't interesting > unless they can be reproduced - and from his point of view all he > wants to do is fix the problem - and he now knows how to do it. > (run the periodic weekly at different times) Hiding a problem doesn't fix it. > Grubbing around in a dump traceback does not prove that a problem is > reproducible. He's already proved that the problem is reproducible. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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