From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 28 17:57:03 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53DD116A415 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:57:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald@jesdesign.nl) Received: from rcpaul.xs4all.nl (rcpaul.xs4all.nl [213.84.170.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479AD43D6A for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:57:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ronald@jesdesign.nl) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (muis [192.168.0.2]) by rcpaul.xs4all.nl (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id k9SHutsa058886 for ; Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:56:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ronald@jesdesign.nl) Message-ID: <454399E5.3030904@jesdesign.nl> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 19:56:53 +0200 From: Ronald Paul Organization: Jesdesign V.O.F. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Instable machine; hardware or not? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:57:03 -0000 Hello group, I have a small server (AMD XP 2400+, ASRock K7VM4+lan, no ECC) running 4.9-RELEASE since February 2004. It is being used for some small dynamic websites (FAMP), e-mail and some other small stuff. It got an uptime of 400+ days last year but since a few months, the machines seems to get more and more unstable. Seemingly random signals (most of them 11, some 10 and 6) are causing random processes (including bash, cron, named, adjkernts, inetd, syslogd and sh) to exit. So this cannot be something else than faulty hardware, you would think. But, and this is the strange part for me, these instabilities are somehow triggered because when the machine is restarted, the server seems rock-solid for the first week. I then can compile a kernel without problems. Temperatures and voltages are fine: > # healthd -d > Temp.= 38.0, 21.5, 0.0; Rot.= 3629, 0, 0 > Vcore = 1.73, 0.00; Volt. = 3.28, 4.95, 11.55, -10.55, -4.56 I already swapped memory and disk but this behavior keeps the same. Is there any possibility that this crashes would disappear when switching to 6.1-RELEASE or are these problems solely caused by hardware? If so, is there any indication on to what hardware-component I should look? I'm planning to switch motherboards but since it is quite a drive to our co-location facility and because it is still functioning as production-server and we do not have much failsafe-services yet, I want to think twice. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Ronald Paul