From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 16:37:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (207-173-241-155.elk.frontiernet.net [207.173.241.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55B637B417 for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:37:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from tagalong (unknown [165.107.42.248]) by blacklamb.mykitchentable.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2D7DEEE5F2; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:37:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <013601c1daa7$be169870$f82a6ba5@lc.ca.gov> From: "Drew Tomlinson" To: "Vince Valenti" , "Jonathan Arnold" Cc: , "\"nate\"" References: <20020402152504.M52789-100000@kenny.blue-box.net> Subject: Re: sudden reboots Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:37:31 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vince Valenti" To: "Jonathan Arnold" Cc: "Vince Valenti" ; ; ""nate"" Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 3:32 PM Subject: Re: sudden reboots > On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jonathan Arnold wrote: > > JA> > My mail server has suddenly rebooted several times since I've upgraded it to > JA> > 4.5-RELEASE (RELENG_4_5). It never happened with RELENG_4_4. It is a Dell > JA> > PowerEdge 6350. Any ideas? > JA> > JA> It could be flakey memory. Maybe 4_5 uses more memory, thus stressing > JA> an area that hadn't been stressed before? > > This doesn't seem that likely to me... Both before and after the upgrade, > it used about the same amount of memory. There are usually many processes > running on top of FreeBSD... > > Does anyone know of anything I should look out for when downgrading > FreeBSD? I'd like to put it back at RELENG_4_4 to avoid filesystem > corruption if I can't fix it. FWIW, I have an old AMD 486 DX4-120 that ran just fine until 4.5-RELEASE. Then it started occasional lock up during heavy processing like building the ports index. No messages, no errors, nothing. All I can do is power off/on and hope for the best which worked until last weekend. I posted about it before but only received one private "me too" response. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know that you are not the only one experiencing "weirdness" since 4.5. Good Luck, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message