From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 16 17:03:55 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 4D54C16A46B for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joeyea323@gmail.com) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.246]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BA713C447 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:03:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joeyea323@gmail.com) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c14so79791anc.13 for ; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:03:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; bh=Iq4uaAFLPbnFIbfcjOEMEUpcv9wS6/SLsVHX3dYY/FA=; b=MmU2fOEb+iaOcdEl54XiBNn91Jf7SVRPcu8gtdyQ6HTJb9n1ihT/9vyDCPg3EILBe98e6txoEddC0XFQKi0iqsV+zULeDzX8qHBwDIafcD/pacde6+MRti6YmkM3sgauATHT6BuZzyCNgdl0YWSGQduYPd41JgsYseZUQqlihq8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=TG7Df5SPgPT/NzPyoibxCw+TdVynXDoYfBp0XqWn2kF18w8s/tTaeJ03pJO5c7ciR6pyPpICPIum8mygmueXR/1f6OLTcewk7DhDZPV14BH3FFunEHzEcmUedRq1l4n4fLhmes+7ulxC5rymhYJXbhPi0wNTGAcVkgOEbr+qn6s= Received: by 10.100.202.9 with SMTP id z9mr2093685anf.16.1200501442280; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:37:22 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.196.13 with HTTP; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:37:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <44f12db00801160837w4e8987e2jb87d7d60c2704788@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:37:22 -0500 From: "Joseph Yeager" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: 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 17:03:55 -0000 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. Thanks, Joe