Date: Sun, 4 May 2008 20:16:18 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> To: Christian Zachariasen <chrizach@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing Lists <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Colin Brace <cb@lim.nl> Subject: Re: server (partly) fails: hardware? Message-ID: <20080504201503.H21598@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> In-Reply-To: <4a89d1190805040335r18ecc433ie6631a64866fd99a@mail.gmail.com> References: <d8186b9e0a344438d027560aa1121dfa@localhost> <4a89d1190805040335r18ecc433ie6631a64866fd99a@mail.gmail.com>
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> Can you predict at what point the server will crash? Is it after performing > a specific action, or at a certain time of day? i think it's quite inpredictable, with probability proportional to disk load. > > If you can connect a monitor to the server and actually see what happens and > also if it still accepts keystrokes and stuff, that would probably help in > diagnosing the problem. yes it will. i had such problem many times. it's always disk/cables/controller problem. > > Another tip might be to download memtest86 and run it for a while on the memory is fine, disk or disk controler or cables are not.
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