FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

[Simon L. Nielsen]

On 2005.11.14 08:33:03 +0100, Rutger Bevaart wrote:
> hello list,
> 
> Our Dell 1750's and 1850's are still giving me headaches.
> 
> Symptom:
> Our Dell PE1750 will reboot at random intervals (between 3 and 130 days),
> seemingly unrelated to the load of the system.
> 
> Config:
> Dell PE1750, dual 3.06 Xeon (533FSB/512Kb), 2x512MB memory, Perc RAID
> (amr) with 3 drives in RAID5. No add-on cards.
> 
> FreeBSD:
> Same problem on 5.3-RELEASE, 5.3-p3, 5.3-p-something and 5.4-p5.
> 
> I disabled HTT in the BIOS but the machine rebooted 3 days later. Argh!
> Now I have no clue whatsoever on how to proceed. No kernel tweaks have
> been made and no strange software is running. No logs are written to
> /var/log/messages. Attached is my dmesg output.
> 
> Anybody any clues on how to proceed? I like these boxes ;-)

"I" have several 1750's that has been running quite stable for a long
while (though at 4.11).  I have Intel gigabit NIC's in them, so
perhaps it's an idea to try and put a different NIC in one of your
systems and see if you problem is related to the Broadcom NIC.

-- 
Simon L. Nielsen
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