Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 08:52:26 -0500 (CDT) From: David Kelly <dkelly@mail.HiWAAY.net> To: clash@tasam.com, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Server Stability not good anymore Message-ID: <199809281352.IAA21493@mail.HiWAAY.net>
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"Joe Gleason" <clash@tasam.com> writes:
>
> I am a madman that runs a shell server. The server was running just fine
> untill a few days ago when I upgraded some hardware. Now it randomly
> reboots every 20 or so hours, which is very bad for me. Does anyone know
> where I should start in finding the problem?
>
> I was running:
> A PII 233mhz with 512mb of Ram on a Tyan S1832DL with FreeBSD 2.2.6.
> I ran in this configuration with 4 128mb dimms at one time and 2 128mb dimms
> and 1 256mb dimm on anouther occasion with no problems. In both cases the
> stability was great.
Parity/ECC memory? If you had parity memory you should get a nice crash
informing you of the bad memory. If you have ECC turned on on the MB
then the system should run thru most memory errors. Not sure if FreeBSD
logs a message about corrected memory problems.
There is no excuse for not using parity and/or ECC in critical
applications.
Only 30MB swapped out on 512M system? So? I run about that quite
often on a single user (me) system:
PeeCee: {237} swapinfo
Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type
/dev/wd0s1b 32768 10532 22172 32% Interleaved
/dev/sd0s1b 59384 10948 48372 18% Interleaved
Total 92024 21480 70544 23%
PeeCee: {238}
The above poor machine only has 24MB of core.
--
David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net (hm)
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