From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 17 02:25:00 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 2024616A422 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:25:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from rwcrmhc14.comcast.net (rwcrmhc14.comcast.net [204.127.192.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB8643D46 for ; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:24:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) Received: from eisenhower.ascendency.net ([67.173.128.145]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20060217022457m1400qj3ube>; Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:24:58 +0000 Received: from Mike8500 (ipcop.localdomain [192.168.1.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by eisenhower.ascendency.net (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k1H2OuRg067543 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:24:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from mike@ascendency.net) From: "Mike Loiterman" To: "'Olivier Nicole'" Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:24:56 -0600 Message-ID: <025801c63369$5809ae90$0401a8c0@Mike8500> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2670 Thread-Index: AcYzZ1qFST20t/A0SFmcroGnPuqHCQAAbyHg In-Reply-To: <200602170210.k1H2AF4B036441@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (eisenhower.ascendency.net [192.168.1.22]); Thu, 16 Feb 2006 20:24:56 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Mysterious reboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: mike@ascendency.net List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 02:25:00 -0000 Olivier Nicole wrote: >> I've also been observing my system...even when mail load from these >> mini-attacks is heaviest, maybe 800 messages a second, the system >> load barly goes over idle. There appeas to have been two such >> attacks. It's a 2.8 ghz machine with 3 gigs of RAM, it should be >> well able to handle that load even for sustained periods of time. > > Did you do some disk stress test? The hardware problem could be > somwhere else than the MB. > > Or network if your anti-spam rely on some network check? > > It would be nice that you set-up your system (how?) so that it does > not reboot in case of failure, so you'd have some information on the > screen. > > Olivier Yes, I ran the unixbench port (2 instances of it) as well as the stress port for about 4 hours. I think the hardware is fine, I believe, at least at this point, that it was simply a micro-power failure. Its been up now around 20 hours. I'll continue to monitor it closely, but it looks like a fluke. ------------------------------ Mike Loiterman grantADLER Tel: 630-302-4944 Fax: 773-442-0992 Email: mike@ascendency.net PGP Key: 0xD1B9D18E