From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 16 14:12:42 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 8A28016A401 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:12:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from pi.codefab.com (pi.codefab.com [199.103.21.227]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38A2243D88 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:12:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FD0C5EFA; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:12:31 -0500 (EST) Received: from pi.codefab.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pi.codefab.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00530-05; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:12:29 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (pool-68-160-194-11.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.160.194.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pi.codefab.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE83C5E7A; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:12:28 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <44197252.2070208@mac.com> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:12:34 -0500 From: Chuck Swiger Organization: The Courts of Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Grant Peel References: <003e01c64902$809839e0$6501a8c0@GRANT> In-Reply-To: <003e01c64902$809839e0$6501a8c0@GRANT> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at codefab.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System Still Freezing 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, 16 Mar 2006 14:12:42 -0000 Grant Peel wrote: > As you may be aware, I have a PE 1850 that has started to intermitantly > freeze (this all started Feb 23rd). SOmetimes, it will run for 2 days, > then freeze, sometimes it can run as long as 5 days. > > All logs and everything turned up to near debug, show nothing. The > system just stops dead, and again, a physical suyvey of the server > reveals nothing. All lights still working and blinking, no excessive > heat not beeps etc etc. Maybe your power supply is going bad and delivering marginal voltages? Do you have it in a redundant config, or could you try adding a second PSU? > A week ago, I ran every 32 bit Dell diagnostic I could on it ... for 4 > hours straight and not 1 error found. I also ran memetst86 for 3 hours > and no errors found. That's interesting but not really conclusive. If it's taking 2-5 days for FreeBSD to die, you're probably going to have to run memtest or prime95 at least overnight (12+ hours, and it would be better to run them for longer) to really catch anything. -- -Chuck