From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 23 17:46:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from home.offwhite.net (home.offwhite.net [156.46.35.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2261137B424; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 17:46:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (brennan@localhost) by home.offwhite.net (8.9.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA02039; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:46:28 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 19:46:28 -0500 (CDT) From: BWS - Offwhite To: Simon Cc: "chris@awww.jeah.net" , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" , "stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: WTF In-Reply-To: <200008240030.SAA62332@mail.fpsn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I had problems with a machine rebooting randomly, but regularly a while back. It was a fileserver which has slower IDE drives. The system disk was fighting to access virtual memory while the fileserver had 3 people writing to disk at the same time with very large files. It was fine if only one person saved a file at a time, but that cannot be expected with a fileserver. We solved it by making that server my new workstation and replacing it with a system with fast 3 SCSI drives. Then it worked fine. I noticed a mention in the /var/log/messages about a kernel panic. You may find the same. Brennan Stehling - web developer and sys admin projects: www.greasydaemon.com | www.onmilwaukee.com | www.sncalumni.com On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Simon wrote: > it can be anything! and i mean anything! bad RAM, bad harddrive, bad CPU, etc... and i know EXACTLY how it feels > when shit like this happens. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to determine the cause. Are you using %100 certified > RAM for your motherboard? just because it's new doesn't mean jack. I had servers go wild with brand new out of the box > RAM and harddrives. You said it only started recently, try to remember after what? some change you made? more load? > do you have logs enabled? anything in there? do you monitor this machine? what's the load average like? swap usage, > etc... what is it doing most of the time? > > -Simon > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000 18:33:21 -0500 (CDT), Chris Byrnes wrote: > > >I'm running 3.5-STABLE. > > > >Recently, my server has started rebooting, at random times, usually > >actually quite religiously about every 2 days. > > > >I thought it might be a RAM problem. Replaced with brand new RAM. > >Same problem. > > > >Any ideas, at all? Pllllllllllllease. > > > >Chris > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message