So, was the big thing just to upgrade to 7.1-prerelease? Or was the port version of the gentoo build also part of the problem?
Everything else you've mentioned seems to be simply what you'd need to go through just to get the sucker to run in the first place. -Joe On Nov 20, 2008, at 6:59 AM, kama wrote: > > Hi, > > I have now healthy servers again on FreeBSD without crashes. The > testserver, where I dont restart hlds every morning, have over 24 > hours of > uptime. > > This are the steps I have done. Upgrade to FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE. > Use the > 2.6.16 kernel linux ABI instead of the default 2.4.2 kernel linux > ABI. Use > an more up-to-date version of linux_base. I use gentoo 2008.0, I > prefer it > over fedora8, due to the amount of dependencies that are needed. I > have not tested to see if fedora8 works. > > Since I had several servers running hlds, I wrote up a install > script that > configure, fetches, unpack and setup the linux_base. > > I have the script available here: > ftp://fa1.pvp.se/freebsd/install_gentoo_2008_2.6.16.bash > ftp://fa2.pvp.se/freebsd/install_gentoo_2008_2.6.16.bash > > The script does more or less what the port does. I started to > rewrite the > Makefile to update the port, but it took longer than write this script > since I am not familiar to write the Makefiles for ports. > > Just run the script after you have updated FreeBSD and removed the old > linux_base. > > On top of not getting the server to crash, the server seems to run > more > smoothly. Like less choke. > > Enjoy! > > /Bjorn > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list > archives, please visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
