From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 17: 1:50 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from awww.jeah.net (awww.jeah.net [216.111.239.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E5E037B623; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:01:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (chris@localhost) by awww.jeah.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA20147; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:02:21 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from chris@jeah.net) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:02:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Chris Byrnes To: John Cc: Simon , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: WTF In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20000823195101.00abc910@mail.udel.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nothing in the log. I changed the CPU from an AMD K6 300 to an AMD K6-2 500.. Are there any known issues with that processor type/speed? ------------------------------------------------- Chris Byrnes, Owner NSI NIC HANDLE CB5820 Jeah Communications http://www.jeah.net ------------------------------------------------- On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, John wrote: > 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