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Subject: Re: On recent crashes
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Chris Phillips wrote:

>> Vivek Khera wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On Jun 28, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
>>>
>>>> Can anyone enlighten me, if recent crashes are on STABLE only or
>>>> 5.4-RELEASE is affected as well?
>>>>
>>>
>>> I have three boxes running 5.4-RELEASE.  one is a mediumly-loaded 
>>> web  server, and two are very heavily loaded database servers.  none 
>>> of  them ever crash.
>>>
>>
> Matt Juszczak wrote:
>
>> Other people I've seen complain seem to be running SMP.... Not sure 
>> if that has anything to do with it but its the only similiarity I can 
>> pull out from any responses I've gotten.
>>
>
> I have 5 modestly powered i386 boxes on 5.4-RELEASE and the only time 
> I have had any complaints regarding system stability, is when running 
> an SMP kernel AND Nagios (which is a known problem - I think it's with 
> Nagios rather than FreeBSD).  Otherwise, I'm almost completely happy.
>

Nagios remotely or locally?  I have nagios remotely that PINGS these 
machines constantly for uptime/downtime checks, but nagios isn't 
actually running on them as a process...