eccp on FreeBSD warning... (eccp take a look atleast, you may be able to answer my possibly simple Q's)

[n0cmonkey]

2. ------------------- Free BSD -------------------------
There is an unknown problem when running on x86 FreeBSD.
The code periodically decides to corrupt the plist.
We're baffled by this and have no fix. We've only tested
on a multi-cpu x86 FreeBSD box, so maybe it's just an
incompatability with an SMP kernel. We don't really know
much about this problem except that it's very annoying.

Does anyone have any more information about this? I mean, what do I look for? How often does it happen? etc. Im running one of the linux statsaholic versions on my OpenBSD machine under emulation, and it seems to be fairly stable, but I want to see if the plist becomes corrupt here too. So if anyone can gimme a clue, please let me know. If this actually works Ill be able to install OpenBSD *AND* run eccp on future machines. Not being able to run eccp is one of the reasons I have been hesitating in buying a new machine

 

[TwoFace]

I have no answer for you, since I've never used Free- or OpenBSD ... but I can at least give ya a bump

TF

 

[Rendus]

I plan on installing Free on one of my SMP systems when I get a new SCSI cable and terminator. I'm curious to see what happens myself, so perhaps I'll throw Free and/or Open on a spare PC here and see what happens first.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Well my OpenBSD box has been running ECCp under emulation for a few months now without incident.
No problems with stability or corruption at all that I've seen.

Good Luck
DnetMHZ

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< Well my OpenBSD box has been running ECCp under emulation for a few months now without incident.
No problems with stability or corruption at all that I've seen.

Good Luck
DnetMHZ >>



That basically answers the question then. But which client are you using? Most of the clients I have tried crash. Except for one of the statsaholic clients. That one has been running pretty stable so far. I feel bad that I have basically killed seti to play with it, but when I get new machines it will be important

 

[n0cmonkey]

<< I plan on installing Free on one of my SMP systems when I get a new SCSI cable and terminator. I'm curious to see what happens myself, so perhaps I'll throw Free and/or Open on a spare PC here and see what happens first. >>



Like I pasted in my first post, this is a known problem for SMP FreeBSD machines. What I am wondering is if you can dump before the plist gets corrupted. If you have an always on internet connection it may not be a big deal.

 

[DnetMHZ]

<< . But which client are you using? >>



to be honest i don't remember.. I think it's the stock client though.. I'll check