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Date:      Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:29:18 +0200
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        Mikael Bak <mbak@inbox.lv>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped)
Message-ID:  <BANLkTimZ3eQmOOimQxjGJF_E12hk-SvS8Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4DB6D082.4020907@inbox.lv>
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On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Mikael Bak <mbak@inbox.lv> 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.

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