Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0.1 crashing a lot?
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@tac.gw.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/15/2005 22:27:34
In article <200502152245.j1FMjrAF018167@guild.plethora.net>,
Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net> wrote:
>We have a NetBSD 2.0.1 server.  It ran fine for a long time, but now it
>seems to crash.  We turned off DIAGNOSTIC so it would just reboot and get
>running again, but the basic problem was always "to_ticks >= 0" in
>kern_timeout.c; I am told this was fixed by a recent change to the TCP code,
>but a naive attempt at applying the patches didn't work.
>
>We're seeing about a crash a day.  I currently don't very much suspect
>hardware, simply because it's always exactly the same crash, and nothing else
>is acting unusual at all.

Yes, the patch is in current and indeed it fixes the problem. Perhaps
you mis-applied the patches.

christos