From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 30 11:44:22 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 462CA16A403 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:44:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net (elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net [209.86.89.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D723643D5C for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:44:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from [66.47.111.183] (helo=joeandlane.com) by elasmtp-dupuy.atl.sa.earthlink.net with asmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1GeVYy-0005Hq-BL for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:44:20 -0500 Received: from joeandlane.com (localhost.localnet.local [127.0.0.1]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k9UBl31U027516 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:47:03 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by joeandlane.com (8.13.8/8.13.1/Submit) id k9UBl2Dn027515 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2006 05:47:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from lane@joeandlane.com) From: Lane To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:47:02 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 References: <4545CBB8.2070706@valuecare.nl> In-Reply-To: <4545CBB8.2070706@valuecare.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610300547.02911.lane@joeandlane.com> X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-CD-SOLUTIONS-MailScanner-From: lane@joeandlane.com X-ELNK-Trace: e56a4b6ca9bdfda11aa676d7e74259b7b3291a7d08dfec79eab2bbf879cafa87446374262dad43e4350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c X-Originating-IP: 66.47.111.183 Subject: Re: A Sleeping FreeBSD Box. 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: Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:44:22 -0000 On Monday 30 October 2006 03:54, nicky wrote: > Hello all, > > I've got a 'weird' problem and i hope someone get point me in the right > direction to a proper solution. > > Somehow, i have no idea why, but my production server falls asleep. It > has happened twice now in the last week. When 'sleeping' the box doesn't > respond to any outside network related communication, like pinging, etc. > However, when i login through the console. It comes alive and responds > to everything again, just like normal. It even continues processes that > were running before it fell 'asleep', which is why i assume they are > suspended during nap time. > > The server has been up and running since August, never had any problems > with it before. I've checked all logs etc, so far i can't see anything > as to why it would fall asleep. I figured that even if there is such a > thing as hibernation on FreeBSD it would turn up in a log, but i've not > seen it so far. > > Does anyone have any idea's/hints on where to look?? > > FreeBSD version is 6-Stable. > > > Greetz, > > Nick > Nick, check out man acpi there are some tunables that you can put in /etc/sysctl.conf to turn off certain power management items during boot. lane