From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 15 15:35:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CAA41065678 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:35:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5222C8FC13 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:35:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m6FFZHJV044841; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:35:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id m6FFZH4P044840; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:35:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:35:17 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200807151535.m6FFZH4P044840@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hostmaster@netconsonance.com In-Reply-To: X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.2-STABLE-20070808 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:35:18 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: how to get more logging from GEOM? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, hostmaster@netconsonance.com List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:35:20 -0000 Jo Rhett wrote: > About 10 days ago one of my personal machines started hanging at > random. This is the first bit of instability I've ever experienced on > this machine (2+ years running) > > FreeBSD triceratops.netconsonance.com 6.2-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 6.2- > RELEASE-p11 #0: Wed Feb 13 06:44:57 UTC 2008 root@i386-builder.daemonology.net > :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > After about 2 weeks of watching it carefully I've learned almost > nothing. It's not a disk failure (AFAIK) it's not cpu overheat (now > running healthd without complaints) it's not based on any given > network traffic... however it does appear to accompany heavy cpu/disk > activity. It usually dies when indexing my websites at night (but not > always) and it sometimes dies when compiling programs. Just heavy > disk isn't enough to do the job, as backups proceed without > problems. Heavy cpu by itself isn't enough to do it either. But if > I start compiling things and keep going a while, it will eventually > hang. I had exactly the same problems on a machine a few months ago. It had also been running for about two years, then started freezing when there was high CPU + disk activity. It turned out that the power supply went weak (either the power supply itself or the voltage regulators on the main- board). Replacing PS + mainboard solved the problem. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good." -- Bertrand Meyer