From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 3 5:34: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from raiden.jasnetworks.net (raiden.jasnetworks.net [65.194.248.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79AB37B416 for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 05:34:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from works (works.jasnetworks.net [192.168.0.2]) by raiden.jasnetworks.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g33Dc9U14101; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 08:38:09 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from raiden23@netzero.net) Message-Id: <4.2.0.58.20020403082926.00960f00@192.168.0.25> X-Sender: megos@192.168.0.25 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.0.58 Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 08:40:00 -0500 To: Vince Valenti , Jonathan Arnold From: Lord Raiden Subject: Re: sudden reboots Cc: Vince Valenti , , "\"nate\"" In-Reply-To: <20020402152504.M52789-100000@kenny.blue-box.net> References: <200204021808400187.009E406E@mail.attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Well in actuality I've got a number of machines running 4.5 and without a flaw. I've even got an old P120 running as a mail server, ftp server, and web server all in one happy little package without a hitch or a glitch. I did notice that there was a couple of big flaws in the most recent releases of sysinstall, but that's about it. Usually if you're hitting issues with your server rebooting at random, it's usually hardware related. Try swapping some stuff out till you get a stable running machine. I had a similar issue a while back with 4.3 on one of our mail servers. It ends up I had to swap out the ISA nic cards for PCI and it played happily afterwords. For some reason Freebsd is pickier on it's hardware in some places, and far more leanient in others. Unlike windoze that will take just about any piece of junk and run with it. So this may turn out to be a scavenger hunt to try to find the culprit piece of hardware, but once you find it, things will smooth right out. IF it turns out to be the MB, (aka if nothing else works, then that's all that's left) then I'd try it as is in another system. If that still doesn't work, it may be a build error. I've had those before when upgrading. The only remedy is to backup the data, wipe the drive clean, do a clean install, restore the data. Just my two cents. :) But then again, if troubleshooting were easy, we'd be out of a job. :) At 03:32 PM 4/2/02 -0800, Vince Valenti wrote: >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message