Kernel panic on PowerEdge 1950 under certain stress load

[Borja Marcos]

On 24 Sep 2007, at 11:33, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Borja Marcos wrote:
>> I don't have the exact IP address involved, but we experienced  
>> consistent panics in two heavily loaded mail servers (same  
>> hardware models, Dell Powereedge) runnning Postfix and FreeBSD 6.2.
>> Suspecting an issue with the IP stack and smp I tried to set  
>> "debug.mpsafenet=0" and the problems are gone. Of course I've lost  
>> some performance, but the systems have been solid for some weeks  
>> so far.
>
> What number is the PR with the details?

Sorry, I couldn't diagnose anything properly. When it happened the  
sysadmin didn't give me the panic details, and being production  
machines the main priority was to put them back into service as soon  
as possible.

Would it be a good idea to file a PR with such fuzzy information? I  
don't think so, that's why I didn't do it. Of course I can do it if  
someone thinks it's worth. But unfortunately I cannot get more  
precise details.



Borja.

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