Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:46:28 -0500 (CDT) From: BWS - Offwhite <brennan@offwhite.net> To: Simon <simon@optinet.com> Cc: "chris@awww.jeah.net" <chris@awww.jeah.net>, "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: WTF Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008231901250.224-100000@home.offwhite.net> In-Reply-To: <200008240030.SAA62332@mail.fpsn.net>
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I had problems with a machine rebooting randomly, but regularly a while back. It was a fileserver which has slower IDE drives. The system disk was fighting to access virtual memory while the fileserver had 3 people writing to disk at the same time with very large files. It was fine if only one person saved a file at a time, but that cannot be expected with a fileserver. We solved it by making that server my new workstation and replacing it with a system with fast 3 SCSI drives. Then it worked fine. I noticed a mention in the /var/log/messages about a kernel panic. You may find the same. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Simon wrote: > 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-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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