FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2/amd64 crashes on SMP under load

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Jul 30, 2009, at 10:09 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:02:29AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 30, 2009, at 2:05 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
>>> By the way, are these two FreeBSD docs up to date:
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/advanced.html#KERNEL-PANIC-TROUBLESHOOTING
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html
>>>
>>> In particular, it is still true that minidump is a default dump  
>>> type?
>>
>> ia64 doesn't yet have minidumps. In fact, changes to GDB that
>> happened a year ago or so broke the ability to read ia64 core
>> files. I plan on implementing minidumps after 8.0-RELEASE.
>
> you mean, even if I get a dump, I wouldn't be able to read it?

Correct.

The change that broke it is:
http://svn.FreeBSD.org/viewvc/base?view=revision&revision=178670

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Marcel Moolenaar
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