Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:35:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Paul Dekkers <P.Dekkers@gromit.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD server hangs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980311103439.15787L-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980310191036.121E-100000@gromit.nev.ml.org>
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On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Paul Dekkers wrote: > Now and then my FreeBSD server hangs sometimes (something that it > didn't do for a month or something ago)... It stops working after a > undefined period of time, but most of the time it takes a week > before hanging. I really don't know what's wrong... Most of the times it > hangs during a file transfer from the server with samba. (However after > rebooting I can safely transfer as much files as I want...) > First time it hang (it occured 3 times now) it gave errors like 'swap > pager error' - it that any known error that I can do something for? We need to know the exact text of the errors in order to derive a pattern. Problems with the swap/vm system can be caused by bad sectors in the swap partition, or bad memory. > P.S. Last kernel update a while ago, I put in ccd and snoop device, may > that be the error? (Couldn't get snoop device working by the way, keeps > saying that it can't find a snoop device, however I even ran MAKEDEV) No, shouldn't hurt them. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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