From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 11:13:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA21970 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:13:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA21947 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:13:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA09251 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:13:46 -0700 Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.6.12/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA30448 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 13:14:01 GMT Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa02962; 26 Sep 96 14:18 EDT Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:18:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve To: "Jonathan A. McEllroy" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE halts for no apparent reason URGENT!! In-Reply-To: <199609261501.LAA00324@jxm203.rh.psu.edu> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Jonathan A. McEllroy wrote: > Hello, > > Before I discuss my problem here is a short info on my server: > > The problem is that about 2-7 hours after boot the machine will just halt. It becomes wedged so > hard that I can't even get through from my terminal on the serial port. Also there are no > messages of any kind in syslog, and the hard drive is not active. This can happen under extreme > load or no load at all, when people are logged in or no one is logged in. > Everytime Ive had a lockup problem under freebsd it was ram related. Are all your simms from the same manufacturer? are they heavily chipped ones? Have you tried turning off the external cache? Have you trierd swapping ram with another machine?