Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 15:53:20 -0500 From: Bob Johnson <bob@eng.ufl.edu> To: henryammons@yahoo.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intermittant freezing problems Message-ID: <3AA7F140.BD5F2234@eng.ufl.edu>
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> > > Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 09:35:43 -0800 (PST) > From: Henry Ammons <henryammons@yahoo.com> > Subject: Intermittant freezing problems > > Good day. > > A while ago I posted the request for some > encouragement to switch from Windows 2k > Server/Exchange to FreeBSD. I have *really* enjoyed > my time with FreeBSD thus far; you can see exactly > what's going on (or find out eventually), and there > isn't that mysterious disk activity when nothing is > happening--it's an honest operating system. > > I have run into some trouble recently, though, and was > wondering if anyone might have suggestions. The > system seems to freeze with no messages or error logs > once or twice a day. When it freezes, the hd activity > light illuminates and stays lit. Pre-BSD I did not > experience any troubles with the exact same hardware. > I'm wondering if it is a hardware probe that is > causing my troubles or possibly my bios settings. > > The system: > AMD 600 Athlon > ABIT MB > 256 MB Ram > (2) Maxtor Drives IDE (on one channel, one master, one > slave) > (2) Linksys ethernet cards, only one in use with > static ip, the other is not configured The first time I set up a system with two Ethernet cards, it locked up at random, typically every two or three days. Upgrading to -STABLE seemed to fix it, it has been very reliable ever since. I don't remember how long ago that was, so I don't know if it was 4.2-RELEASE or something older. You might try removing the ethernet card you are not using and see if that helps. If it does, and you eventually need both cards, try updating your system to what then will probably be 4.3-STABLE. > No X > FreeBSD 4.2, sshd, sendmail, apache > > I appreciate your help with this. It was frozen this > morning, but did have the standard two Charlie Root > emails, so it was running until at least 2am. > > Thank you, > Henry > You might also try searching the email archive (at http://www.freebsd.org) for "Athlon" to see if there is anything specific for your processor that you need to know. Good luck, - Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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