Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 22:41:56 +0100 From: Graeme Dargie <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk> To: 'FreeBSD Questions' <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: System locking up. Message-ID: <0EE458C34045A44DBC2CA2DC5CEB42B52344BE4832@mercury.universe.galaxy.lcl> In-Reply-To: <81C853D1253C1A5E1B35675C@mac-pro.magehandbook.com> References: <0EE458C34045A44DBC2CA2DC5CEB42B52344BE4831@mercury.universe.galaxy.lcl> <81C853D1253C1A5E1B35675C@mac-pro.magehandbook.com>
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-----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@f= reebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Staal Sent: 18 September 2011 22:59 To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: System locking up. --As of September 18, 2011 2:29:20 PM +0100, Graeme Dargie is alleged to=20 have said: > I have a system that is being problematic, I suspect but I cannot say for > sure it is maybe related to ZFS as I have a fairly large ZFS pool on the > machine. The system will just lock up, local console does not respond to > the keyboard, num lock still changes the led on the keyboard, the system > still responds to pings but you cannot ssh to the unit. The behaviour is > random the system can be running for 50 days plus with no issues then > suddenly it enters this state, the error logs do not show anything. --As for the rest, it is mine. Where is your swap located? I've seen similar on a ZFS system with swap on= =20 ZFS, when running low on RAM. If that's the case, you can either put in=20 more RAM (so you don't need to use swap) or move swap to a dedicated=20 disk/partition, that's not under ZFS control. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org= " Swap is on the UFS boot disk, so it might be a heat/psu issue as previously= suggested. Regards Graeme
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