From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 6 09:34:37 2007 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 D408616A417 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:34:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valerio.daelli@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6412D13C457 for ; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 09:34:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from valerio.daelli@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k17so402367waf for ; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:34:36 -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:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=PyLmtv59KTL2w0z4gkw2JvVV6aqasRoNrUgFWJwD6fM=; b=EjjLGSOtq8mYNQo96zGM6EXhHIKkajIUnk2CKM9FhEV2yn4pBk2CARpiVBHeMd7IdQtvMI7vnfVnnWpUKQPGEHU6cndOg2S9ynAHOn5LCiRFSu8BmmWIDKjbZZvr3tQP8Xn21m+KrOUrEPWhD3/qqiNXaB1VDG6mx1TLSfXtLLo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Q3p2kYKA6QOAizhrMsNwMUcN2TV+1Sb3/J0rkkHOGcqvr/qZFTnaJPcehpqLOS2C9tqe58KbXFLPX8LsrHRDey7tu5EFDjFd5BHiNSdnGX7MhxD9t3Woi9RGjoF0dFLdb2k7zR6ZdbxMmx/tVEK864x3LuFhX8atInJkE0XNG08= Received: by 10.114.149.2 with SMTP id w2mr1349871wad.1196933676399; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 01:34:36 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.114.110.10 with HTTP; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 01:34:36 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <27dbfc8c0712060134u3580b5b0v24a7bc3301c05692@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 10:34:36 +0100 From: "Valerio Daelli" To: freebsd-questions MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: fsck of big disk 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: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 09:34:37 -0000 Hi list we have a freshly installed FreeBSD 6.2 machine with a gstriped external disk, of 5.3Tb. The disk is composed of two slices of 2.6 Tb. We are trying to have a (background) fsck of it but few hours later since the start of the check the host get unresponsive: it responds to ping but it doesn't let login anyone, nor by ssh nor by console. In the meanwhile we are having a large rsync from another host. Tonight during the fsck/rsync we had a reboot, without special messages on the console. We have 1Gb of RAM on this server. Is 1Gb too small as memory to have a fsck and a rsync on a server with 5.3Gb as external disk? Thanks for your precious help Valerio Daelli Server: i386 - HP DL360 CPU pentium4 1Gb RAM HBA: LSI Logic 929 External disk: Apple XRAID with upgraded firmware