From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 30 18:17:01 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43FF937B401 for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from posgate.acis.com.au (posgate.acis.com.au [203.14.230.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 056ED43F3F for ; Wed, 30 Jul 2003 18:16:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (dialup-1.acis.com.au [203.14.230.80] (may be forged)) by posgate.acis.com.au (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h6V1Gpk0022509; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:16:52 +1000 Received: from bullseye.apana.org.au (localhost.apana.org.au [127.0.0.1]) h6V1Hcg1074902; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:17:45 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Received: from localhost (andymac@localhost)h6UN1WWO074779; Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:01:32 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au) Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:01:32 +1000 (EST) From: Andrew MacIntyre To: William L Stube II In-Reply-To: <3F27ED63.8000106@lssaa.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <20030731085705.Y74755@bullseye.apana.org.au> References: <3F27ED63.8000106@lssaa.wisc.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.30 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD not-so-stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 01:17:01 -0000 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). -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (pref) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@pcug.org.au (alt) | Belconnen ACT 2616 Web: http://www.andymac.org/ | Australia