From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 21 13:01:11 2005 Return-Path: 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 3A83A16A4CE for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:01:11 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail22.messagelabs.com (mail22.messagelabs.com [62.231.131.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 490C443D49 for ; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:01:10 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rdls@satamatics.com) X-VirusChecked: Checked X-Env-Sender: rdls@satamatics.com X-Msg-Ref: server-14.tower-22.messagelabs.com!1106312468!20317175!1 X-StarScan-Version: 5.4.7; banners=satamatics.com,-,- X-Originating-IP: [212.125.75.81] Received: (qmail 1526 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2005 13:01:08 -0000 Received: from smtp-12.star.net.uk (212.125.75.81) by server-14.tower-22.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 21 Jan 2005 13:01:08 -0000 Received: (qmail 18468 invoked from network); 21 Jan 2005 13:01:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO hub.bw.satamatics.net) (62.231.144.4) by smtp-12.star.net.uk with SMTP; 21 Jan 2005 13:01:08 -0000 Received: from [10.24.5.250] (doctor-evil.satamatics.net [10.24.5.250]) j0LD17mq055626; Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:01:07 GMT (envelope-from rdls@satamatics.com) In-Reply-To: <20050121124811.P2927@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> References: <20050121124811.P2927@kenmore.kozy-kabin.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <80B02674-6BAC-11D9-9F09-000A959AF31E@satamatics.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: R D L Smith Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:01:02 +0000 To: "Colin J. Raven" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboot problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:01:11 -0000 On 21 Jan, 2005, at 11:56, Colin J. Raven wrote: > On Jan 21 at 11:36, R D L Smith asked the panel: > >> I have a teramac R310-1U from DNUK running 5.3-RELEASE-p1. It is the >> only >> server I have running 5.x. ISTR that the SiS chip set prevented me >> loading >> 4.x. >> >> The uptime of this server is good unless its under heavy load. When >> MySQL >> (with InnoDB) is being worked hard, the server will reboot after a >> few hours. >> However, build world will not crash it. >> >> I have added the following to rc.conf: >> >> dumpdev="/dev/ad0s1b" >> >> and the following to the kernel configuration file: >> >> makeoptions DEBUG=-g >> options KDB >> options PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME=-1 >> >> I have also connected a serial console to the serial port and logged >> in as >> "root". >> >> I never get a dump file and I never get a message at the console. I >> don't >> know what else I can do other than strike this hardware vendor off my >> list >> and dump the server. This machine has already had its motherboard >> replaced. > > What about the power supply? > > There has been quite a lot of traffic of late concerning so-called > "spontaneous reboots" and so far - *IIRC* - none of the incidents > were directly attributed to causes _other than_ balky power spupplies, > and in one recent case interestingly, a defective UPS!! > > I think it's probably worth shoving a new PS in there, these days they > are far from expensive, in order to see if that eliminates further > instances of the problem. I did consider that the previous time I was trying to get to the bottom of the problem. The problem is easy to reproduce, simply by starting mysqld and getting it to replicate. I do not normally blame FreeBSD. I have been using it very successfully for years in a production environment. This is the first server I have had with this particular chip set, and I have read about problems with the chip set in the past. It seems to be disk related - it could certainly be a hardware fault (cables or disk drive - as I said before, the motherboard has been replaced already) - if anyone out there is successfully using this hardware with FreeBSD, I could at least eliminate a device driver related problem. My other concern is that I do not understand why I do not get any diagnostics. > I suppose much depends on whether or not you really want to -as you put > it - 'dump the server'. Should you elect to do so, please feel free to > ship it across the North Sea to me, I'll be happy to pay for the > shipping, deal with its little idiosyncracies and give it a "second > life" :-) I will keep that in mind ;-) -- R D L Smith Network Systems Director Satamatics Limited Gloucester Road, Tewkesbury, GL20 5TT, United Kingdom T: +44 1684 278610 F: +44 1684 278611 E: rdls@satamatics.com ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star. 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