On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 08:36:42AM -0700, Scott Long wrote: > >Anyone having updates for my showstopper page, please, notify me... > > > >http://www.stack.nl/%7Emarcolz/FreeBSD/showstoppers.html > > The pty problem is likely a side effect of known locking problems with > ttys and ptys in general. This probably the weakest part of the kernel > right now and I don't know of a good work-around for apps that use these > extensively. That said, there doesn't seem to be much of a problem with > casual use; I use screen(1) quite a bit on my production 6.0-RC > mailserver+firewall.
I know it doesn't trigger too often for most users, but still, for us, once a week per server on 2 production servers we installed FreeBSD 5 and 6 on, is way too often. :-( More so because these kernel panics on SMP systems tend to utterly destroy soft-updates consistency giving fsck quite a workout and resulting in data loss... > Is the 'VM/VFS overruns' item still a problem? That was likely fixed a > couple of months ago. If not then it's definitely something that I'll > track for the 6.1 release. I'll retest that one, but it wasn't fixed yet in -CURRENT of a month ago. > The ACPI+sio problem is known. I have a motherboard with a similar > problem, though a different brand than yours. I solved it by removing > the ACPI attachment from the sio code. The better solution is to allow > loader hints to override ACPI hints. I tried talking to John Baldwin > about this but didn't get much of a response. I've tried all suggestions so far, but to no avail on most servers. Too many broken ACPI implementations I fear... Too bad motherboard vendors don't take the time to push proper software in their flash. In any case, thanks for thinking along with me. :-) Marc
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