From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 22 8:49:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4EFD14D6A for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 08:49:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@wintelcom.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17011; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:06:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 09:06:13 -0700 (PDT) From: Alfred Perlstein To: jamie@exodus.net Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Catching the culprit (reboot problems) 3.3 In-Reply-To: <19990921234918.A14291@dilbert.exodus.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Jamie Rishaw wrote: > /dev/da0s1f 762223 5482 695764 1% /var > real memory = 536870912 (524288K bytes) > avail memory = 519012352 (506848K bytes) > > swapinfo: > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > /dev/da0s1b 524288 0 524160 0% Interleaved > > i dumpon /dev/da0s1b'd. > > So, ya, should be enuff.? no, somewhere in the handbook (or somewhere) it explains that you need _a bit_ more swap than ram, why didn't you follow the rule of thumb? (swap = 2x mem?) -Alfred > > On Tue, Sep 21, 1999 at 11:17:01PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > On Tue, 21 Sep 1999, Jamie Rishaw wrote: > > > > > > > > hi all, > > > > > > First off, sorry for any duplicates. Seems hub.freebsd.org > > > doesnt like my other box. :) > > > > > > Anyhow.. > > > > > > I have a fbsd 3.3 sys, dual p3/500, 512m, and a scsi stripe with > > > vinum(100g). > > > > > > It seems the box likes to crash and reboot every once in a while (daily), > > > but I cant seem to find anywhere (messages, syslog) what is causing the reboots. > > > > > > I tried turning on crashdump with dumpon, to no avail. Nothing in /var/crash > > > or /. > > > > hmmm, are you sure /var/crash has enough space to hold the core image? > > > > afaik, it has to have at least X-MB of space where X is your system's > > total memory. > > > > -Alfred > > -- > jamie rishaw (efnet:gavroche) -- Exodus Communications, Inc. > Senior Network Engineer, Los Angeles / SoCal Data Centers > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message