From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 22 18:55:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 345DD16A420 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:55:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from viper@fx-services.com) Received: from mamata.fx-services.com (mamata.fx-services.com [193.238.27.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 106CE43D58 for ; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:55:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from viper@fx-services.com) Received: from c83-250-235-77.bredband.comhem.se ([83.250.235.77] helo=[192.168.2.160]) by mamata.fx-services.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1FBz97-000Ixt-Lr for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:55:30 +0100 Message-ID: <43FCB077.3070704@fx-services.com> Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 19:41:59 +0100 From: Robin Vley User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051017) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <022a01c63338$1ba87d90$0401a8c0@Mike8500> <43F4EA85.7060703@fx-services.com> <17396.62826.839924.94289@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <17396.62826.839924.94289@jerusalem.litteratus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus-Scanner: Mail is Virus Free, FXS MailGateway X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - mamata.fx-services.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [26 6] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - fx-services.com X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Subject: Re: Mysterious reboot 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: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 18:55:20 -0000 Robert Huff wrote: Robert, > I have a -CURRENT machine - P4, 512mb RAM, SCSI disks, > de-driver ethernet, all mainstream hardware - that has this problem. > Since early last year (maybe longer) it will occasionally reboot. Actually, I had it on three machines now. First on a P4 I leased in the US. Then on the dual Athlon MP with 3ware raid that I own and THEN on the SuperMicro machine I currently use. After the first reboot on that machine (8 days ago now) I did some things: - removed all monitoring done by CPanel (except the cpanel monitor itself) - Upped the maxfiles and vnodes a bit - Removed an ipfw rule that counted everything that goes out and comes in. I used this for MRTG graphing, but now I changed to SNMP polling on a seperate cacti machine. So far it's 8 days (a NEW record for my FreeBSD machines, woopie), knock knock. It's possible it's one of the things above that did the trick, or that it's just a few more days untill the next reboot. We'll see. > No warning, no panic, no core-dump, just - bang. If I was lucky it Right. Same here, on all machines. > After an update in October (??), things slowly got better; > several further updates and I haven't seen it in weeks. I'll keep an eye on it too. Hope it's working like it should. If not it's time to start looking into some way of dumping run data or doing some serial logging or so. /Robin