From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 9 19:15:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from va.com.au (va.com.au [203.15.106.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C99A14F2F for ; Sun, 9 Jan 2000 19:15:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jesse@va.com.au) Received: from [1.1.1.3] (203.108.19.226) by va.com.au with ESMTP (Eudora Internet Mail Server 2.2); Mon, 10 Jan 2000 13:45:11 +1030 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: jesse@mail.va.com.au Message-Id: Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:13:04 +1100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: jesse reynolds Subject: What makes my FreeBSD 3.3 RELEASE machine crash? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi folx What are the most common causes of a FreeBSD machine to crash? (When I say "crash", I mean reboot for no apparent reason). Can anyone suggest how I might track down what is causing my server to crash? I now have a feeling it might be hardware related, but this could be nonsense. It could be some of the software I'm running on it I suppose. I was doing a `rm -R /usr/ports` (as I had stuffed it up) and it just crashed and rebooted itself. This is obviously a fairly intensive IO task, but it shouldn't cause the machine to crash. Also running at the time were Apache 1.3.9, Big Brother 1.3a, Bind 8, sshd, and others. The machine is a Digital Venturis 575 - 75MHz pentium with 72Mb Ram, 256Mb Swap partition. Until recently it had Red Hat LInux 5.1 on it, which crashed quite regularly too, but people tell me this was a very buggy version of linux so I wasn't to suprised. However, I am very suprised that in the first month of FreeBSD 3.3 Release being on the box it has crashed twice. How can I go about tracking down the problem? I mean I can try doing different things, but some advice on what people feel may be the problem would be very helpful. - am I expecting too much from the box, or does it sound like a hardware fault, or should I simply upgrade to a new -stable? What do people thing? cheers jesse -- Jesse Reynolds - Virtual Artists Pty Ltd - http://www.va.com.au Faxmail: +61 2 9776 3594 Virtual Community Engine Email: jesse (at) va.com.au http://www.vce.net ?: http://jesse.va.com.au huh?: Community Server for ICQ: 4766684 MacOS Servers (W*API) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message