From owner-freebsd-stable Sat May 22 0:29:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dns.tomail.com.tw (dns.tomail.com.tw [203.70.70.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 47C3114CAA for ; Sat, 22 May 1999 00:28:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from silver@tomail.com.tw) Received: (qmail 1343 invoked from network); 22 May 1999 07:29:38 -0000 Received: from ms2.tomail.com.tw (HELO tomail.com.tw) (203.70.70.16) by dns.tomail.com.tw with SMTP; 22 May 1999 07:29:38 -0000 Message-ID: <37465C0D.4346BC8@tomail.com.tw> Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 15:26:05 +0800 From: Silver CHEN X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,zh-TW MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: [Help] My brand new 3.1R freezes or reboot under heavy loading... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Sir: I have a brand new PC server with the following hardware: * PII 350 x 1, 256 MB SDRAM, 100MHz clock rate * Gigabyte dual CPU motherboard w/ integrated 2940U2W SCSI * Intel 82559 ethernet card * 2*4.3GB SEAGATE LVD HDs, attached on the same channel * FreeBSD 3.1R w/ GENERIC kernel Well, it SHOULD be a real server, but now it IS a 'toy' server.... Each time I try to run some heavy loaded jobs, like sending 500000+ emails out, the system freezes, or automatically reboot, with no resonable reason. However, I've got this message twice: May 22 02:05:00 dns /kernel: vm_page_free: freeing wired page (...then the normal boot message) I've changed SDRAM yesterday, but it freezes again. The only thing I DO make sure is the system load/resource usage is not very high at that moment, but the disk I/O might be high then. (Say, the swap usage is 0, the system load is 3-, and the process # is 200-.) I set the maxusers = 128, is it a resonable level? Someone said that I'd better upgrade to 3.2R, someone said this is an very old bug in 2.X...... I used 2.2.7 for over one year on a very old IDE/PC, it NEVER freezes/ crash, now I'm very upset about my new high-end 'toy' server. :( I like FreeBSD, but if I can't solve this problem, I must give up. I don't want to 'mean' anything that is not related to this problem, so please help me out on my trouble, but not just 'correct' my statement. Thanks a lot. I'll try these two steps soon: 1. upgrade to 3.2R 2. slow down my motherboard from 100MHz to 66MHz 3. remove FreeBSD, switch to other UN*X OS.( that's too bad :( ) -- +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ | Shan-Ta CHEN E-Mail : sansil@pchome.com.tw | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message