From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 14:29:19 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1134F106566B for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:29:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-pz0-f54.google.com (mail-pz0-f54.google.com [209.85.210.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8DF78FC08 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:29:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk27 with SMTP id 27so380692pzk.13 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:29:18 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.68.43.4 with SMTP id s4mr1042973pbl.61.1303828158307; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:29:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.68.50.130 with HTTP; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:29:18 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.187.53] In-Reply-To: <4DB6D082.4020907@inbox.lv> References: <4DB6D082.4020907@inbox.lv> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:29:18 +0200 Message-ID: From: "C. P. Ghost" To: Mikael Bak Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:29:19 -0000 On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Mikael Bak wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a system running FreeBSD 7.3. Its main function is running > Postfix SMTP server and a few perl based content filters. Nothing exotic > really. > > It has been nicely up and running approx 150 days when it suddenly > starts behaving very strange. > > First I noticed a converter script failing. It is basically a small > shell script that converts a quite big file replacing a few words using > sed. The output is mostly damaged. > > Another problem is that lots of processes exits signal 11 (core dumped). > And I need to restart them by hand. See dmesg output below. > > I know I don't give you guys much to go on. I just want to know it it's > possible to find out somehow if some hardware is failing and must be > changed. > > My first thought was overheating. But my collegue went to the site and > he said the hardware is not hot at all. If you didn't update the OS or the apps, it is almost certainly hardware- related. Probably a bad PSU, or bad RAM. The box doesn't have to overheat when one of those are degraded. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/