From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 11 10:35:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28627 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:35:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28566 for ; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:35:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA15905; Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:35:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Wed, 11 Mar 1998 10:35:37 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Paul Dekkers cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD server hangs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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