From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 30 19:04:06 2005 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 C110216A41F for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:04:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Jim.Gorski@xerox.com) Received: from wbmler4.mail.xerox.com (wbmler4.mail.xerox.com [13.13.138.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED52043D4C for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:04:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Jim.Gorski@xerox.com) Received: from wbmlir1.mail.xerox.com (wbmlir1.mail.xerox.com [13.131.8.221]) by wbmler4.mail.xerox.com (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8UJ41Zv008240 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:04:05 -0400 Received: from wbmlir1.mail.xerox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wbmlir1.mail.xerox.com (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8UJ38Tl007480 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:03:08 -0400 Received: from usa7061gw02.na.xerox.net (usa7061gw02.na.xerox.net [13.151.32.4]) by wbmlir1.mail.xerox.com (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j8UJ35Qk007453 for ; Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:03:07 -0400 Received: from usa0300ms01.na.xerox.net ([13.135.34.10]) by usa7061gw02.na.xerox.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:02:57 -0700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 15:03:00 -0400 Message-ID: <309AD90BD8FC7E4383DB1ACCBF6C8DC00173AA1A@usa0300ms01.na.xerox.net> X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: FreeBSD5.4-Release reboots under disk load - where to start troubleshooting? Thread-Index: AcXF8ZNHDIE8hODaTa2yAgqNbER+sA== From: "Gorski, Jim" To: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Sep 2005 19:02:57.0524 (UTC) FILETIME=[91E23B40:01C5C5F1] Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: FreeBSD5.4-Release reboots under disk load - where to start troubleshooting? 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: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 19:04:07 -0000 Hi all, =20 Long time reader - first time poster. =20 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =20 Short version of the questions: =20 Troubleshooting unlogged resets in FreeBSD5.4 - suggestions? Is 4.11 a better choice for systems that have shown instability under 5.4? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =20 Long rambling versions: =20 My system worked flawlessly under Fedora Core 3 and 4, but I have been recently impressed with the stability and performance of FreeBSD on two of my older servers (both 5.x) at home. One of them is at almost eight months of uptime, and the last reset was a power outage! =20 Anyhow my problem system ran fine under minimal load for a week. Using ports to install Enlightenment, Samba, Evolution - no issues. =20 Copying about 20GB of MP3 to a Samba share caused the system to reboot. Nothing listed in the system logs, no heat/power problems in the BIOS and nothing funny (other than a fsck) when it started up again. =20 This error repeated when using Pan to snag a bunch of binary files from a newsreader. =20 One minute everything is fine - then black screen and reboot. =20 Unfortunately this failure mangled the root partition, and I was not skilled enough to recover the data. =20 I have run memtest and a SMART disk health utility against the system no errors The system ran Fedora fine for about a year before the switch to BSD. =20 Last night I installed 5.4 again and installed nothing by a program called dvdbackup using the ports collection. First time I tried to backup a DVD, the same symptom. =20 Tonight I will try FreeBSD4.11, but if I see the same issue I may have to return to the Linux installs of my past (sigh). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =20 Thank you for your insight, =20 Jim Gorski jim (@t) jimgorski (dt) com =20