Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:01:32 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: William L Stube II <wlstube@lssaa.wisc.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not-so-stable Message-ID: <20030731085705.Y74755@bullseye.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <3F27ED63.8000106@lssaa.wisc.edu> References: <3F27ED63.8000106@lssaa.wisc.edu>
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On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, William L Stube II wrote:
> I have a FreeBSD 4.8-Release machine that I upgraded from a 4.5 or 4.4
> machine. It works just great for about 9 days, then processes will not
> die. It starts to become a problem when I can't kill processes, restart
> services, connections hang, and I can't reboot or shutdown, I have to do
> a hard reset.
I have seen something like this on a 4.7 box that I tracked to a drive
with a swap partition going out to lunch. Unfortunately that drive also
had /var on it, so no logging info was ever written.
The drive (IDE) would always come back with a reboot, but after a few days
would exhibit timeout errors (AIRC).
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