From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 19:19:11 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 129EC16A420 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:19:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from weak.local (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 536E513C45B; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:19:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <478E58AC.6020305@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:19:08 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Macintosh/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joseph Yeager References: <44f12db00801160837w4e8987e2jb87d7d60c2704788@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <44f12db00801160837w4e8987e2jb87d7d60c2704788@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2 Frequent Lockups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 19:19:11 -0000 Joseph Yeager wrote: > Hello, > I'm experiencing daily lockups on a FreeBSD 6.2 machine thats currently > being used as a gateway for a local church school. I have installed and/or > configured the following services which are running on it right now: Quagga > (only using the Zebra daemon), DHCP (via the isc-dhcp3-server port), BIND, > and PF. Everything runs as expected except for the fact that the machine > will completely freeze (console included) quite often. Its recently gotten > as bad as freezing every 3-5 hours. I don't have any custom cron jobs > running and the only job I see that operates at that frequency is daily > maintenance. Thinking it could be a heat problem originating from sitting > on top of a switch, I put a few blocks under and now it runs a good bit > cooler. Last night, I had the windows open and it never got hotter then > luke warm and I witnessed, first hand, it completely freeze for no apparent > reason. Despite that seemingly pointing to it NOT being a heat problem, > I'll be moving it to a shelf by itself. I will also be swapping out the RAM > in a few hours when I get up there to see if that is the problem, but I > still have a feeling (after reading other similar problems like this) that > that may not be the answer. I have a similar setup running at my home which > uses the exact same motherboard but different RAM and HD. The only > difference on my home router is that I have split horizon DNS setup for my > domain and am using IPFW as opposed to PF. My home router has been rock > solid every since I got it (several months ago) and my email and webserver, > which both run FreeBSD 6.2, have never been down except for extended power > outages. I will update you on how the RAM swap goes, but if there are any > other suggestions you have I would greatly appreciate it. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html Kris