From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 3 09:49:24 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16EB237B401 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:49:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from s-smtp-osl-01.bluecom.no (s-smtp-osl-01.bluecom.no [62.101.193.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38C3443F93 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 09:49:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from erik@pentadon.com) Received: from eps (tromso-dhcp-234-175.bluecom.no [62.101.234.175]) by s-smtp-osl-01.bluecom.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68C5C163561; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:49:21 +0200 (CEST) From: "Erik Paulsen Skaalerud" To: "'Daniela'" , Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 18:49:29 +0200 Message-ID: <000401c329f0$19f0fee0$0a00000a@eps> X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <000501c329ca$963da1e0$0300000a@linkinpark> Subject: RE: Server overloaded? Or is it a bug? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 16:49:24 -0000 > Hi all! Hi > I need your help. Ok. You should ask generic questions like this on freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, as its not directly rleated to FreeBSD-STABLE. > My server doesn't respond any more. Everything crashed. > How can I find out if this is a bug or it is simply overloaded? Did you try looking at its console? It probably have lots of pretty messages of whats going on.. > I don't have much running, just KDE with about 10 programs > on each of the 16 desktops, and a few background processes. > This seems much, but I often have much more stuff running, > and it is not even slow. > > It does respond when I ping it, but won't let me in over SSH. > The processor doesn't sound busy, so I suspect that the > scheduler has gone away, or there is some bug in the kernel, > or some system table is too small. Hm. What kind of sound does a busy CPU make? :-) > How do I find out what the problem is? (Never had any > before.) Yeah, attach a console and find out whats going on. > FreeBSD has always managed the highest loads, even > on normal PC hardware. Is it possible to bring the server > back without rebooting? I would lose a lot of unsaved data if > I had to reboot. I'm running 4.8-STABLE. When a server responds to ping, but ssh times out etc it often relates to hdd problems. Atleast in my experiences it has been so (dead disk). And if it is hdd problems, and FreeBSD couldnt get the disk to wake up again, you probably already have lost data. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Daniela