From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 22 11:01:42 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB92316A4E1 for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:01:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CFDE43FEA for ; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 11:01:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ukla@comcast.net) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (c-66-229-214-237.we.client2.attbi.com[66.229.214.237](untrusted sender)) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with SMTP id <20030822171328012009t1vne>; Fri, 22 Aug 2003 17:13:28 +0000 User-Agent: Microsoft-Entourage/9.0.2509 Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 10:13:30 -0700 From: Steve Warwick To: Message-ID: Mime-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Subject: Something rotten in the OS? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 18:01:43 -0000 Hey All, I have just had my 2nd HD crash in a year - different machine, different type of drive etc - the only consistency is the OS and the installed software. It looks like this is some kind of overflow???? This problem seems to start after about a month and is indicated by there being fragments of the kernel config data in the daily kernel log messages. I asked about that on this list but people seemed to think it was just some kind of log rotation. I caught the machine a couple of months ago with nearly all the swap used (800meg out of 1 gig) and rebooted which kept the machine happy. I recently noticed the kernel log messages had the config fragments again and was going to to a reboot - but alas too late. The machine is down, HD is damaged and we are trying to get data off the drive... This is exactly the problem that occurred 6 months ago. That time I put it down to lousy overheated hosting but now I don't have that excuse. Has anyone seen this before? Does FreeBSD have to be re-booted every month for safety? Should I give up and use Linux? A frustrated sysadmin Steve