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From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
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To: "Robert Blayzor" <rblayzor@inoc.net>,
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Subject: Re: RE: Swap_pager error
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    I have one more idea... daily cron jobs tend to really load down the
    system for a short period of time, especially the disks.  In your case
    the local daily cron is combinging with the daily cron running on the
    NFS clients.  There could be a hardware problem with the system that
    is most likely to show up under heavy loads.  

    It is also possible that this is revealing a driver bug somewhere.
    For example, the extreme disk load could be revealing a bug in the
    driver's tag handling or in the RAID card's tag handling.  The lack
    of driver-based error messages is rather odd.  I don't see how that
    can happen unless the RAID card itself is locking up.

						-Matt

::
::Both times the box has crashed crashed at ~3:02am.  I'm thinking that
::something in periodic daily is causing the crashes.
::
::Keep in mind, that this server serves several NFS clients which mount
::things such as FreeBSD ports and /usr/src.  Those are soft linked to on

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