From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 26 11:49:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA18925 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:49:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from glacier.cold.org (glacier.cold.org [206.81.134.54]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA18819 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 11:48:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brandon@localhost) by glacier.cold.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA25965; Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:47:16 -0600 (MDT) Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 12:47:14 -0600 (MDT) From: Brandon Gillespie To: Steve cc: "Jonathan A. McEllroy" , questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1.5-RELEASE halts for no apparent reason URGENT!! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > 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? Or heat related--make sure your server is in a well ventilated area and the fans are working and not clogged. -Brandon Gillespie