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Date:      Fri, 11 Jul 2008 17:58:31 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Jo Rhett <hostmaster@netconsonance.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: how to get more logging from GEOM?
Message-ID:  <20080711155831.GA72963@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <C278655C-4FFB-4A8E-9501-2B84283E324D@netconsonance.com>
References:  <C278655C-4FFB-4A8E-9501-2B84283E324D@netconsonance.com>

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On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 12:59:33AM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> About 10 days ago one of my personal machines started hanging at =20
> random.  This is the first bit of instability I've ever experienced on =
=20
> this machine (2+ years running)
>=20
> FreeBSD triceratops.netconsonance.com 6.2-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 6.2-=20
> RELEASE-p11 #0: Wed Feb 13 06:44:57 UTC 2008     root@i386-builder.daemon=
ology.net=20
> :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>=20
> After about 2 weeks of watching it carefully I've learned almost =20
> nothing.  It's not a disk failure (AFAIK) it's not cpu overheat (now =20
> running healthd without complaints) it's not based on any given =20
> network traffic...  however it does appear to accompany heavy cpu/disk =
=20
> activity.  It usually dies when indexing my websites at night (but not =
=20
> always) and it sometimes dies when compiling programs.   Just heavy =20
> disk isn't enough to do the job, as backups proceed without =20
> problems.   Heavy cpu by itself isn't enough to do it either.  But if =20
> I start compiling things and keep going a while, it will eventually =20
> hang.

> Is there anything else I should be looking at?

Power supply or motherboard would be my first guess.

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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