From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 22 09:25:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA16819 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 22 May 1998 09:25:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from postoffice.onu.edu (postoffice.onu.edu [140.228.10.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA16795 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 09:25:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from r-beer@onu.edu) Received: from [140.228.15.35] (asterion.onu.edu [140.228.15.35]) by postoffice.onu.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA08401 for ; Fri, 22 May 1998 12:25:19 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 12:26:17 -0400 To: FreeBSD-Questions mail-list From: Robert Beer Subject: Freeze Up on 2.2.2 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a 2.2.2 host that has been successfully serving about 40000 e-mail messages daily for about five months without a reboot. This has happened a few times before but the time has come to delve deeper into this problem. Only adminstrators log into this host. No information was logged in the various log files or on the console. The only strange item was that logging to syslog files in the /var partion stopped about 2 hours before the computer became unresponsive. The mail spool and mail queue are on different disks. Therefore I am pretty sure disk space was not the problem as /var has about 80 MB free. I became aware of the problem when I grep'ed a popper log file for a username and got no response or prompt back. The host was still pingable. The alternate windows of the console worked and I tried to log in on the second one. The username echoed but the password prompt never appeared after the username was entered. There was some system disk activity but all disk activity soon stopped. After about 10 minutes of looking around I flipped the power switch. This is a Tyan D1662 with a 200 Mhz PPro and 96 MB of EDO memory and two NCR 875 disk controllers. I have a couple other systems that are VERY similar. Does anybody have any suggestions? --- Bob Beer Ohio Northern University, Academic Computer Services, Ada, OH 45810 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message