From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 27 23:26:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from camelot.bitart.com (camelot.BITart.com [206.103.221.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D11FB15086 for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 23:26:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gerti@bitart.com) Received: (qmail 3292 invoked by uid 101); 28 Nov 1999 07:26:43 -0000 Message-ID: <19991128072643.3291.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> Content-Type: text/plain MIME-Version: 1.0 (NeXT Mail 4.2mach v148) In-Reply-To: X-Nextstep-Mailer: Mail 4.2mach (Enhance 2.2p1) Received: by NeXT.Mailer (1.148) From: Gerd Knops Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 01:26:43 -0600 To: Chris England Subject: Re: 3.3-STABLE Crashes Cc: questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: gerti@BITart.com References: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message