Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:14:39 +0100 From: Chris Phillips <SysAdmin@Rainbow-IT.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On recent crashes Message-ID: <42C1776F.2060006@Rainbow-IT.net> In-Reply-To: <42C175B6.7060702@atopia.net> References: <1119950428.22027.1.camel@tarkhil> <C7F95488-8AB6-48D7-85F2-9B400B8F5C31@khera.org> <42C171AA.6090802@atopia.net> <42C173D9.3010408@Rainbow-IT.net> <42C175B6.7060702@atopia.net>
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Matt Juszczak wrote: > Chris Phillips wrote: > >>> Vivek Khera wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Jun 28, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Alex Povolotsky wrote: >>>> >>>>> Can anyone enlighten me, if recent crashes are on STABLE only or >>>>> 5.4-RELEASE is affected as well? >>>>> >>>> >>>> I have three boxes running 5.4-RELEASE. one is a mediumly-loaded >>>> web server, and two are very heavily loaded database servers. none >>>> of them ever crash. >>>> >>> >> Matt Juszczak wrote: >> >>> Other people I've seen complain seem to be running SMP.... Not sure >>> if that has anything to do with it but its the only similiarity I can >>> pull out from any responses I've gotten. >>> >> >> I have 5 modestly powered i386 boxes on 5.4-RELEASE and the only time >> I have had any complaints regarding system stability, is when running >> an SMP kernel AND Nagios (which is a known problem - I think it's with >> Nagios rather than FreeBSD). Otherwise, I'm almost completely happy. >> > > Nagios remotely or locally? I have nagios remotely that PINGS these > machines constantly for uptime/downtime checks, but nagios isn't > actually running on them as a process... The main Nagios process, was running on the server that died. It was responsible for checking itself & the other hosts (and others not within my responsibility, but equally important). I'll be retrying running them Nagios on the SMP server, sometime soon (like in a minute or two).
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