From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 2 15:33:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from kenny.blue-box.net (kenny.blue-box.net [204.245.221.97]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67CDE37B62F for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:32:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by kenny.blue-box.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/BBMX) with ESMTP id g32NWej57005; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:32:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@blue-box.net) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:32:39 -0800 (PST) From: Vince Valenti To: Jonathan Arnold Cc: Vince Valenti , , "\"nate\"" Subject: Re: sudden reboots In-Reply-To: <200204021808400187.009E406E@mail.attbi.com> Message-ID: <20020402152504.M52789-100000@kenny.blue-box.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 2 Apr 2002, Jonathan Arnold wrote: JA> > My mail server has suddenly rebooted several times since I've upgraded it to JA> > 4.5-RELEASE (RELENG_4_5). It never happened with RELENG_4_4. It is a Dell JA> > PowerEdge 6350. Any ideas? JA> JA> It could be flakey memory. Maybe 4_5 uses more memory, thus stressing JA> an area that hadn't been stressed before? This doesn't seem that likely to me... Both before and after the upgrade, it used about the same amount of memory. There are usually many processes running on top of FreeBSD... Does anyone know of anything I should look out for when downgrading FreeBSD? I'd like to put it back at RELENG_4_4 to avoid filesystem corruption if I can't fix it. -- Vince Valenti Systems Administrator BendNet - Rosenet - Rio To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message