From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 12 16:13:11 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ssc.wisc.edu (charles.ssc.wisc.edu [144.92.190.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AD9237BB1B for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 16:13:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu) Received: from copland.ssc.wisc.edu (copland.ssc.wisc.edu [144.92.190.86]) by ssc.wisc.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA03759 for ; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:12:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from dbongert@localhost) by copland.ssc.wisc.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA06833 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:12:57 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.6-3 on Linux X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:12:57 -0500 (CDT) From: Dan Bongert To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD Mail server locking up Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've had a 3.3-RELEASE SMP mail server up and running since December (it replaced non-Y2K compliant hardware). (PIII-500x2, 256 MB RAM) This afternoon, it locked up on me. So I rebooted it. And it locked up again. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. After being up for about 15 minutes, it would completely lock up. There wasn't any record of anything suspicious going on. No odd processes, no odd entries in the log files, no high load, no high memory usage, nothing. I've disabled the SMP kernel (running on GENERIC now), swapped out DIMMS, everything I can think of, to no avail. Right now, it's been up for almost a half an hour, which is a record for this afteroon by a factor of two. I'm completely stumped. And, since I'm the one who recommended using FreeBSD as our departmental mail server, it's my ass that's going to be in trouble. Since it was hanging every 10-15 minutes or so, and it's been up for a half hour, I'm going to babysit it a while and see if it's OK. Should I maybe upgrade to 3.5-RELEASE? Any suggestions? -- Dan Bongert dbongert@ssc.wisc.edu SSCC Unix System Administrator (608) 262-9857 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message