From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Jan 6 5:33:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D255B14D99 for ; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 05:33:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA50308; Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:33:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2000 08:33:08 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: up@3.am Cc: FreeBSD ISP List Subject: Re: Why I have to reboot at times; was:RE: uptimes, Woo Hoo In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I had an odd problem too - I finally traced it to an older C based menu program we use - I recompiled it to be native to the 3.2 and the problem stopped. On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 up@3.am wrote: > > ok, on the pretense of steering this thread back to topic, I could use > some advice on the following problems I've been seeing with 3.2-RELEASE: > > there appears to be some sort of memory leak that I can't track down to a > specific process (I have 256MB on this box): > > Mem: 87M Active, 129M Inact, 25M Wired, 6332K Cache, 8343K Buf, 4196K Free > Swap: 517M Total, 517M Free > > After a reboot, this will have well over 100MB free, and gradually eat all > but a few MB of it, but rarely (if ever) touch swap. I've done top, ps > amx, and I don't see anything particularly huge. I also tried a virgin ps > (just in case I'd been hacked), and seen no difference. > > *Part* of the problem appears to be that interactive shell processes don't > die if I do a CTL-C, CTL-D or CTL-Z. they stop and remain in memory until > I either kill the process, or the shell. I dunno if this is normal FBSD > behavior, just that it doesn't happen in Solaris or Linux. > > On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Troy Settle wrote: > > > Our power is fairly stable, but it does go out on occasion. > > > > The last outage we had lasted about 12 hours. Our UPS (Matrix 3000) only > > held out for about 6 hours :( > > > > I'm trying to get a generator, but it doesn't look like that's going to > > happen any time soon. > > > > -Troy > > > > > > ** -----Original Message----- > > ** From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG > > ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of n8 > > ** Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:04 PM > > ** To: Kurt Jaeger auf Mailinglisten > > ** Cc: Willem Jan Withagen; oppermann@pipeline.ch; isp@FreeBSD.ORG > > ** Subject: Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo > > ** > > ** > > ** WOW. Must be nice... > > ** I loose power for longer than one hour usually, and it happens every 1-3 > > ** MONTHS. I'm starting to feel good about my 75 day uptimes. :) > > ** > > ** Vae > > ** > > ** > > ** On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Kurt Jaeger auf Mailinglisten wrote: > > ** > > ** > Hi! > > ** > > > ** > On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 10:56:49AM -0600, n8 wrote: > > ** > > > obcore$ uptime > > ** > > > 7:53AM up 845 days, 10:12, 1 user, load averages: 0.00, > > ** 0.00, 0.00 > > ** > > > obcore$ > > ** > > > ** > > Are you guys on some sort of special powergrid or something? > > ** > > > ** > It's called the european power grid, a large, interconnected grid > > ** > of almost all power plants in Europe, from Norway down to Italy. > > ** > > > ** > Pretty robust. We also have UPSs, but this particular server is > > ** > not connected to one. Why ? Answer: Because up to now, it was > > ** > not the power grid that failed, but the UPS (most of them from APC, > > ** > where does their reputation is coming from ?). > > ** > > > ** > In the future, only systems with two seperate power supplies > > ** > that connect to two different UPSs make any sense to me. Too expensive > > ** > for all equipment, but well... > > ** > > > ** > > > ** > > > ** > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > ** > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > ** > > > ** > > ** > > ** > > ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > ** with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > ** > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > > > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor > up@3.am http://3.am > ========================================================================= > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message