From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 16:56:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wondermutt.net (host75-157.student.udel.edu [128.175.75.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C346237B616; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 16:56:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from morgaine.udel.edu (morgaine.wondermutt.net [192.168.1.2]) by wondermutt.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA67817; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:58:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from papalia@udel.edu) Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20000823195101.00abc910@mail.udel.edu> X-Sender: papalia@mail.udel.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:52:46 -0400 To: Chris Byrnes , Simon From: John Subject: Re: WTF Cc: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" In-Reply-To: References: <200008240030.SAA62332@mail.fpsn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Anything showing up in your message log? (/var/log/messages). That could be helpful too. For right now though, you're really not giving very much info, other than info that pretty much boils down to that you "changed everything and now nothing works". --john >SWAP usage has been high lately. It happened RIGHT after I upgraded the >system to a new CPU, board, and RAM, and to 3.50STABLE. I >thought maybe there was a OS issue with my SUP or something (I >was hoping). That's when it started >happening. God, I dont have TIME to weed thru trying new boards and new >CPUs. > >I wish there was a quick fix. > > > it can be anything! and i mean anything! bad RAM, bad harddrive, bad > CPU, etc... and i know EXACTLY how it feels > > when shit like this happens. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to > determine the cause. Are you using %100 certified > > RAM for your motherboard? just because it's new doesn't mean jack. I > had servers go wild with brand new out of the box > > RAM and harddrives. You said it only started recently, try to remember > after what? some change you made? more load? > > do you have logs enabled? anything in there? do you monitor this > machine? what's the load average like? swap usage, > > etc... what is it doing most of the time? > > > > -Simon > > > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:33:21 -0500 (CDT), Chris Byrnes wrote: > > > > >I'm running 3.5-STABLE. > > > > > >Recently, my server has started rebooting, at random times, usually > > >actually quite religiously about every 2 days. > > > > > >I thought it might be a RAM problem. Replaced with brand new RAM. > > >Same problem. > > > > > >Any ideas, at all? Pllllllllllllease. > > > > > >Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message