From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 16:15:57 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 BBA2516A420 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:15:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jayesh.freebsdlist@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3199043D45 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:15:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jayesh.freebsdlist@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id t16so69975wxc for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:15:56 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=FId5QaDMUI02MvaRp1u3/y5IRyoc9xIU4YrCxmG9n74PP2AgrDrjFXRKfXZCjHlJsY5tAjM6db+w5XSzCG5nm4tBSEgrcfCiLSBd9s4L32GXpbIcCHezGo6UYPo0011ImDt/HKGAgaZevjU702xPwvmwHzEAHGyvlUYvukrbpzM= Received: by 10.70.30.7 with SMTP id d7mr617410wxd; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:15:55 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.7.16 with HTTP; Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:15:55 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:45:55 +0530 From: "Jayesh Jayan" To: "Jerry McAllister" In-Reply-To: <200602231526.k1NFQoPd006497@clunix.cl.msu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <200602231526.k1NFQoPd006497@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 16:15:57 -0000 All are Dell Poweredge servers with identical specification. I did check the message logs an couldn't find any problem What are the other aspects which I need to check so as to find a solution. On 2/23/06, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > > That was valuable in deed .... > > > > The 12 server are all identical but the problem is that the test machin= e > > which we will be using is not of the same class as that of the server. > > > > Then all the server run a custom built kernel and not the generic one. > > > > By "mode" I meant how to go about doing this process. Is it better to g= o > the > > cvs way or the binary way ? > > > > Currently we have not yet thought of freebsd 6.0, we are thinking of > making > > the servers bit more stable with the stable version.... > > See, this is a misunderstanding of the way the word 'stable' is being > used in regards to the FreeBSD versions. It is stable only in relation > to the 'current' development track which is in almost complete flux as > people work on it daily. But in comparrison to the RELEASE verion > a STABLE version is not as "stable" (though it is usually pretty good). > It is sort of an interim version with security patches and some of the > new things that are being worked on. > > > We came to this conclusion because our servers do have a problem were > the > > server gets rebooted automatically with put any reason ( I couldn't get > any > > from the logs ) > > This is probably not related to the OS level at all. It is most likely > some hardware or power stability issue, but could be some software > thing if storage space or memory table space or some such is running out. > > > This issue is there with all the servers but the one server suffers the > most > > ( having a real bad uptime which is max of 2 days ) > > Any possibility you have something going that has a "memory leak"? > > ////jerry > > > > > I hope to get more data on the same so that the transition is done > smoothly > > .... > > > > > -- Jayesh Jayan "The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux." Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com