From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 00:03:34 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3462516A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:03:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kuldipmanak.chamkila.org (node-40240ed2.sjc.onnet.us.uu.net [64.36.14.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9EB943D41 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:03:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from aman@chamkila.org) Received: from mail.chamkila.org (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) j2G02GBg002548; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:02:16 -0800 Received: from 69.36.228.194 (proxying for 192.168.96.214) (SquirrelMail authenticated user aman); by mail.chamkila.org with HTTP; Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:02:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <56241.69.36.228.194.1110931336.squirrel@69.36.228.194> In-Reply-To: <20050314203715.GW91771@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20050119103214.A27409@pooker.samsco.org> <37799.69.36.228.194.1109286815.squirrel@69.36.228.194> <421E604F.3080305@samsco.org> <34148.69.36.228.194.1110235564.squirrel@69.36.228.194> <44497.69.36.228.194.1110474073.squirrel@69.36.228.194> <32883.69.36.228.194.1110831839.squirrel@69.36.228.194> <20050314202905.GT91771@hub.freebsd.org> <34997.69.36.228.194.1110832499.squirrel@69.36.228.194> <20050314203715.GW91771@hub.freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 16:02:16 -0800 (PST) From: "Amandeep Pannu" To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Amandeep Pannu Subject: Re: Freebsd 5.3 hangs under heavy load???? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:03:34 -0000 Hi all, I have two Seagate SCSI drives 36GB and 8GB RAM and installed 5.3-REL with PAE and SMP support. Now the problem arises that the system hangs under heavy load and there are no error messages nothing. I have to hard boot it everytime it hangs. Any ideas what is going on. It is a Supermicro MB. 2GB PC2100 DDR266 ECC/Reg Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz 533FSB Thanks in advance. A