Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:36:18 +0100 From: Robert Slade <bsd@bathnetworks.com> To: "Tamouh H." <hakmi@rogers.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: BGL Message-ID: <1128173778.365.21.camel@lmail.bathnetworks.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20051001135928.05C2C43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org> References: <20051001135928.05C2C43D45@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
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On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 15:01, Tamouh H. wrote: > Hi Rob, > > For anyone here to be able to help you with this, we need much more > information. > > For example: > > Make/Model of the machine: > Type of CPUs, Speed: > Type of RAM/Size: > Type of Controller Card: > Type of Hard Drives: > Network Card: > Applications running: > > or post a full dmesg.boot > > If you have compiled a new Kernel, post the modifications you've made to the > Kernel. > > How random are these reboots ? Do they happen after a day ? a week ? Do they > always happen at the same time ? > > I've once encountered random reboots on cPanel servers due to a cron perl > script that did not have the proper path specified. > > The more info you give, the more helpful we can be here. Thanks! > > Tamouh > Tamouth, Thank you for the reply. I did post several mails to the list and did not get any replies. The machine is back in storage at present as I could not afford to spend any more time on it. The details as far as I can remember without getting it out are: Proliant 5000 server fitted with quad Xenon 200Mhz processors and 1Gbyte of memory with a raid controller and 5 9.1 Scsi drives. To try and isolate the problem I removed all the drives and put a spare 9.1 drive in. As far as applications went I was using DHCP and a DNS plus xwindows/kde with vncserver on a small test network consisting of a router and a windows xp pro machine running putty and tightvnc to connect. I tried 5.4 stable 1st. With the standard kernel ie without any changes from the generic it worked fine - running for over 48 hours. Using the SMP kernel ie using the smp config with no other changes, I got random reboots after between 1/2 hr and 6 hrs. I also tried 6.0 beta via cvsup build world mergemaster etc. This gave the same results. I had to stop at that point as I ran out of time. I will have another go when I have time. Rob
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