From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 26 14:53:45 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 C2EED1065676 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:53:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mbak@inbox.lv) Received: from shark4.inbox.lv (shark4.inbox.lv [89.111.3.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C4C18FC23 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:53:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.inbox.lv (pop [10.0.1.110]) by shark4-plain.inbox.lv (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78DFA1BD60 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:35:42 +0300 (EEST) Received: from [10.2.2.50] (m0n0.serverbank.hu [62.77.131.200]) (Authenticated sender: mbak) by mail.inbox.lv (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2A3D61D29A for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:35:41 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <4DB6D839.3010809@inbox.lv> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:35:37 +0200 From: Mikael Bak User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.24 (X11/20101027) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <4DB6D082.4020907@inbox.lv> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: OK 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 14:53:45 -0000 C. P. Ghost wrote: > 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. > Hi, Thanks fot the fast answer! The OS is regularly updated with "freebsd-update", but only within 7.3 version. The apps are regularly updated with "portmaster". So I can't say nothig's ever changed. But I can only say that this is the only machine I've ever seen behave like this. TIA, Mikael