From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 10:19:07 2003 Return-Path: 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 9E2F337B401 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:19:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from pop016.verizon.net (pop016pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB99B43FDD for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 10:19:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com ([129.44.43.88]) by pop016.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.27 201-253-122-126-127-20021220) with ESMTP id <20030327181905.HSAE8278.pop016.verizon.net@mac.com> for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:19:05 -0600 Message-ID: <3E834080.3010902@mac.com> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 13:18:40 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20030327125138.B60255-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> In-Reply-To: <20030327125138.B60255-100000@malkav.snowmoon.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.73.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at pop016.verizon.net from [129.44.43.88] at Thu, 27 Mar 2003 12:19:05 -0600 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-31.2 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, RCVD_IN_UNCONFIRMED_DSBL,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: kernel panics, lots of them X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 18:19:10 -0000 jaime@snowmoon.com wrote: > I have a box that has been having problems for months. > Originally, there were problems that were corrected by replacing the > mother board. What kind of problems did you have? And what hardware? It's quite possible to damage the CPU or even the power supply if the motherboard fails badly enough. > Since then, and I'm not sure when this began, there have > been kernel panics after several days of uptime. They can be after one > day or three weeks, but they keep happening. Probably not a problem with cooling, then. Still sounds like flaky hardware, though, to me... > So far, I've replaced an IDE cable and a boot time error > disappeared, replaced RAM with no benefits, and cvsup'ed/make-world'ed > with no benefits. > > I'm not sure what is causing the problems. Any suggestions of > what I should do next? I still have 14 kernel panic dumps if anyone can > think of tests that I should be running. Most of the panics appear to be > page faults, but two of them were lockmgr issues. I'm considering > replacing the mother board and/or the whole computer. Unfortunately, this > is a fairly major server at my school (staff email, assorted web-based > apps, web site, intranet, etc.) so I am trying to keep outage frequency > and duration to a minimum. There is memtest and cpuburn in the ports; try running those and see whether you can get the system to crash. -Chuck