On 16:43:00 Feb 19, Daniel Andersson wrote: > > Could you please elaborate? The only thing that was working after > the freeze was the routing. I guess I could try FreeBSD since they > have pf too. iptables is driving me nuts. >
Sorry I was out and just came back home. I think my answer would be irrelevant now since many other people seem to be facing problems. So there seems to be something wrong somewhere. I did notice a freeze but I don't think it has anything to do with what others are saying. Almost in every case I thought it was due to the tracker being down or some such bittorrent issue. Since p2p networks have so much churn I am always wary of concluding anything based on this. Beyond this I have nothing more to add to this. As to iptables and pf, I honestly think comparing the two would be like comparing darkness to light. ;) On a different note, I have seen my OpenBSD box freeze badly whenever I access my Sony SATA DVD R/W drive. I never got time to diagnose the exact cause. It is a serious issue and something needs to be done about it soon. In fact I install using FTP or HTTP due to this hairy issue. Other than that I have seen OpenBSD freeze with the ImageMagick convert(1) program as well. Here goes one more freeze. I used to have trouble recording voice with the new Intel HDA driver, but nowadays that problem does not seem to be there. It is a little unnerving to note that OpenBSD userland code sometimes hangs the whole machine very much like Windoze but then...let us better be open about it and do something. I am quite well versed with OpenBSD's kernel code but I need experience with driver development and fixing such "freezes". If someone can throw some light on the debugging process I can definitely give it a shot. Would I have to use a serial console and run the kernel with ddb(4) ? Thanks. Best, Girish
