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Date:      Sun, 28 Nov 1999 01:26:43 -0600
From:      Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com>
To:        Chris England <cengland@obscurity.org>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: 3.3-STABLE Crashes
Message-ID:  <19991128072643.3291.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.10.9911271639150.17534-100000@obscurity.org>
References:  <Pine.BSO.4.10.9911271639150.17534-100000@obscurity.org>

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Chris England wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've been using FreeBSD since the beginning of the 2.2 branch and have
> never had a problem with my system crashing.
>
> Just recently, I upgraded from 3.2-STABLE to 3.3-STABLE, and it seems my
> machine will lock up periodically.  (It has happened 3 or 4 times since
> 3.3-STABLE was compiled on the date shown in the dmesg output)
>
> Two things I've been doing differently lately which I doubt would cause
> this.  One is running ssh 1.2.27 clients all the time, another is running
> apache.
>
> Is this a known problem?  If not, any suggestions on how one might
> investigate the cause of this?
>
>
> ----- Here is some dmesg info on my machine: -----
>
> FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #1: Thu Oct 21 13:21:16 PDT 1999
> stab@freebsd.oblivion.sk:/usr/src/sys/compile/oblivion
> Timecounter "i8254"  frequency 1193182 Hz
> CPU: Cyrix 5x86 (486-class CPU)
> Origin = "CyrixInstead"  DIR=0x132d  Stepping=1  Revision=3
> real memory  = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
> avail memory = 30035968 (29332K bytes)
>
Apache is very resource intensive, and if not configured very carefully it  
eats your 32MB for breakfast. My guess would be the kernel is running out of  
something and panics. You might want to check /var/log/messages for some  
signs of trouble.

Gerd


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