From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 16 14:33:12 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 85C7416A428 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:33:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ken@allenmyland.com) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.192.83]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D35B243D70 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:33:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ken@allenmyland.com) Received: from bserver.transpack.com ([68.80.195.248]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <20060316143309m13005mo8ne>; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:33:09 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.transpack.com [127.0.0.1]) by bserver.transpack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8255B84A; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:33:08 -0500 (EST) Received: from bserver.transpack.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bserver.transpack.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 03135-01; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:33:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from [192.168.214.102] (kbuilt.transpack.com [192.168.214.102]) by bserver.transpack.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 950F4B843; Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:33:05 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <44197720.3090003@allenmyland.com> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:33:04 -0500 From: Ken Stevenson 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> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at transpack.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 14:33:12 -0000 Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > Another chapter in the life (and death), of my Dell PE 1850. > > 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. > > 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. > I don't have an answer for you, but I had a very similar problem. It's why I'm running FreeBSD now. I had RedHat 9 installed on a Dell 2650 running Apache 2, Postfix, Postgresql, Bind ... My system has a DRAC, raid, and a single processor. Actually I have 2 identical servers. One server is only for backup and lightly used and it never had a problem. The symptoms on my primary server were exactly the same. Sometimes it would seize up twice in one week. Sometimes it would run for weeks. The weird thing was that it would respond to pings. However no system services responded and the console was totally unresponsive. In frustration after not being able to figure out what was causing the problem, I decided to try FreeBSD 6 Stable. End of problem. I never figured out if it was the operating system, or an application or what. If you're desperate, you might want to try the opposite: load Linux. If you're looking for something that feels familiar to a FreeBSD'er, try Gentoo. -- Ken Stevenson Allen-Myland Inc.