From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 21 09:58:08 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEB0C16A400 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:58:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nico-freebsd-questions@schottelius.org) Received: from denkbrett.schottelius.org (natgw.netstream.ch [62.65.128.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927BC13C455 for ; Mon, 21 May 2007 09:58:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nico-freebsd-questions@schottelius.org) Received: by denkbrett.schottelius.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D6B41FDC56; Mon, 21 May 2007 11:39:31 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 11:39:31 +0200 From: Nico -telmich- Schottelius To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070521093931.GD1101@schottelius.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="1sNVjLsmu1MXqwQ/" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: echo $message | gpg -e $sender -s | netcat mailhost 25 X-Unix-Info: http://unix.schottelius.org/ X-Netzseite: http://nico.schottelius.org/ X-System-Info: denkbrett running Linux 2.6.21-denkbrett on i686 Subject: Outage on FreeBSD 6.1 / dell sc 1425 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, 21 May 2007 09:58:08 -0000 --1sNVjLsmu1MXqwQ/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello list, I've some problems with two dell sc1425, using two u320 scsi hardisks, freebsd 6.1, gmirror raid1 mounted at /, a dual core xeon 3.2ghz: - the production server started to get really really slow last week and started to print those [0] messages to dmesg - after I rebooted that server it seemed to work normally - yesterday it freezed or was extremly slow: * no services via tcp where reachable * it was still reachable via icmp * it was *not* possible to login via console * it was possible to switch virtual consoles =20 * after rebooting it, it hung in the fsck, which did not print any status messages * we rebooted it in single user mode, where we could see the fsck doing its work * we rebooted it then again in normal mode and after short time for fsck it is up and running again I am wondering whether this is a hardware or software problem. The system is a heavily used mailserver offering imap(s)/pop3(s)/smtp(s)/webmail. I am currently somehow deterred to continue using this server, so any hint how to debug this issue are appreciated. Sincerly Nico [0]: http://home.schottelius.org/~nico/unix/freebsd/dmesg-systems-hanging --=20 Think about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS). http://nico.schottelius.org/documentations/foss/the-term-foss/ PGP: BFE4 C736 ABE5 406F 8F42 F7CF B8BE F92A 9885 188C --1sNVjLsmu1MXqwQ/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGUWjTuL75KpiFGIwRAmLBAKCz0BrcP+owBo27SUZ3C6fZ+tD+LACePWir atW3E13XDE6Yy2F6jjsR6s0= =VQNn -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --1sNVjLsmu1MXqwQ/--