From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 01:02:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 738F816A4CE for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:02:49 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shadow.wixb.com (shadow.wixb.com [65.43.82.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F6A43D39 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:02:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Organization: Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee WI USA Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.2.20041227185957.00c06430@cheyenne.wixb.com> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2004 19:02:48 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "J.D. Bronson" In-Reply-To: <20041228005253.GA40721@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <6.2.0.14.2.20041227184603.00bfee78@cheyenne.wixb.com> <20041228005253.GA40721@xor.obsecurity.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Subject: Re: 5.3 and HT with SMP X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:02:49 -0000 At 06:52 PM 12/27/2004, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > > When it did crash, there was no logs and no errors. The servers are on a > > huge stable UPS. Solaris runs on these machines for months. > > > > Anyone see this? anyone have any ideas? > >Try a BIOS update. Many early revisions of BIOSes with HTT support >were buggy. This bios is right up to date....so unless there is some fix out that has not been released....I am at as high as I can be. >Also, make sure you have crashdumps enabled (see handbook and >developers' handbook for more details), because your "randomly >reboot"ing may actually be the server panicking because of a kernel >bug. I had crashdumps enabled and since the machine never crashed even after 2 weeks I Was unable to capture anything. I wanted to add that I had never had any issues running 5.2.1 on this machine even with the same bios. So I am left to think something changed in 5.3 that somehow now I am hitting. I cannot rule out my scsi cards/drives...so this week I will be doing a new install on this hardware with IDE only and then see if anything changes for the better. although as I stated before..solaris runs on these machines for a very long time with no unexpected reboots.... Very hard to find out this error! Jeff