From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 25 12:57:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.fpsn.net (mail.fpsn.net [63.224.69.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27A2437B42C for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:57:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sharky (adsl-151-202-97-90.bellatlantic.net [151.202.97.90]) by mail.fpsn.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA05991 for ; Fri, 25 Aug 2000 13:59:53 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from simon@optinet.com) Message-Id: <200008251959.NAA05991@mail.fpsn.net> From: "Simon" To: "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 16:00:56 -0400 Reply-To: "Simon" X-Mailer: PMMail 2000 Professional (2.10.2010) For Windows 2000 (5.0.2195) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: FreeBSD crashable under *very heavy* load? Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, I'm stress testing one of our systems and wondering if it should be possible to crash a rock solid box by putting it under extreme high load. I mean maximum disk I/O, RAM, CPU, etc... If so, what could cause such a crash? I'm wondering this because while stress testing last night, I un/mounted /proc several times and after a while the system panicked. Unfortunately, I couldn't see the whole message on the console as I couldn't scroll up. Was this because I touched /proc or simply because I did this while machine was in a stressful mode? I'm running the same tests right now but without un/mounting /proc in between and it seems to be solid. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Machine Specs: FreeBSD 4.1-R Dual PIII600 512MB ECC RAM 9GIG / 18GIG SCSI-3 drives 40 GIG IDE Maxtor Thanks, Simon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message