From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 25 15:15:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B9A616A400 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:15:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from talk.nabble.com (www.nabble.com [72.21.53.35]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 716EA13C448 for ; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:15:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from [72.21.53.38] (helo=jubjub.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HVUBc-0006yd-2V for freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:59:12 -0700 Message-ID: <9660666.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 07:59:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Ofloo To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: bulk@ofloo.net References: <453B0D01.8050709@ofloo.org> Subject: Re: DL580 Quad 700mhz X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 15:15:17 -0000 I Have replied to this mail earlier, but apparently the reply hasn't arrived, for me it was a cron job which kept filling the mailq in the end quota was exceeded and that crashed the cpu's, you could say it's a local dos exploit :p if a user has cron access and adds * * * * * /path/to/non-existing/file the mailq will fill/quota will exceed and the server will crash, I'm not sure this will happen on all FreeBSD systems but it did on mine. even ls couldn't return the number of files in the mail queue directory Marc G. Fournier-2 wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > I realize that this is now an ancient email, but there are three reports > of > late concerning 'sleepin thread', so I'm wondering if you have gotten past > this > yet? > > - --On Sunday, October 22, 2006 08:17:37 +0200 nospam@ofloo.org wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> My server crashes, and all i see on screen is, .. sleeping thread >> shutting down remaining cpu's or something like that, suggestions?? I've >> tried google but no luck.. >> >> >> Thanks in advance. >> > > > > - ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services > (http://www.hub.org) > Email . scrappy@hub.org MSN . scrappy@hub.org > Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.org ICQ . 7615664 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQFFlYLM4QvfyHIvDvMRAsG5AKCjcXU2BevfjxJshWtMKHqSHoBF3QCgkkpf > s3fLEl5A54Xpnv8LKYjDkO4= > =aV1V > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-proliant > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-proliant-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/DL580-Quad-700mhz-tf2489002.html#a9660666 Sent from the freebsd-proliant mailing list archive at Nabble.com.