From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 18:17: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from irv1-mail2.intelenet.net (irv1-mail2.intelenet.net [204.182.160.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6730B37B479 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:17:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from gidney.intelenet.net (gidney.intelenet.net [207.38.65.47]) by irv1-mail2.intelenet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA07701; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:17:04 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200011220217.SAA07701@irv1-mail2.intelenet.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Bart Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ping OK, daemons dead ? In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:04:51 +0100. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 18:17:17 -0800 From: David Harnick-Shapiro Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:04, Bart writes: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, David Proffitt wrote: >>>> acid2:/1/home/skin$ telnet mymachine.nl >>>> Trying 212.104.204.x... >>>> Connected to mymachine.nl. >>>> Escape character is '^]'. >>>> >>>> So the daemon ain't dead... >> >> Do you eventually get a login prompt (after about 40 seconds) >> If so it may be trying (and failing) to do a DNS lookup on the inncoming > > I can wait 5+ mins and still no login: > (and it seams that it doesn't even close the connection > after xx minutes) Rather than daemon processes dying, this sounds to me more like processes getting starved for resources (cpu cycles, memory, mbufs, something along those lines). Can you do some low-tech monitoring and figure out what's getting used up? Try connecting to the system while it's healthy, and just keep top or netstat or swapinfo or ... running, so you see what state the machine was in when you last had useful access to it. -------- David Harnick-Shapiro FirstWorld Communications Senior Networked Systems Engineer 18101 Von Karman Avenue, Ste 550 Irvine CA 92612 "Get the Internet the way you want it" http://www.firstworld.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message