From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 28 16:14:42 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E332A16A41C for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:14:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from SysAdmin@Rainbow-IT.net) Received: from venus.rainbow-it.net (venus.furrie.net [62.3.212.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8823543D1F for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:14:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from SysAdmin@Rainbow-IT.net) Received: from localhost (localhost.rainbow-it.net [127.0.0.1]) by venus.rainbow-it.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D88C522824 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:14:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from venus.rainbow-it.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (venus.rainbow-it.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 32781-01 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:14:39 +0100 (BST) Received: from [10.6.8.7] (freya.hq.rainbow-it.net [10.6.8.7]) by venus.rainbow-it.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 092E72281F for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:14:38 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42C1776F.2060006@Rainbow-IT.net> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:14:39 +0100 From: Chris Phillips Organization: Rainbow IT Consultancy User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1119950428.22027.1.camel@tarkhil> <42C171AA.6090802@atopia.net> <42C173D9.3010408@Rainbow-IT.net> <42C175B6.7060702@atopia.net> In-Reply-To: <42C175B6.7060702@atopia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rainbow-it.net Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On recent crashes X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:14:43 -0000 Matt Juszczak wrote: > Chris Phillips wrote: > >>> Vivek Khera wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Jun 28, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Alex Povolotsky wrote: >>>> >>>>> Can anyone enlighten me, if recent crashes are on STABLE only or >>>>> 5.4-RELEASE is affected as well? >>>>> >>>> >>>> I have three boxes running 5.4-RELEASE. one is a mediumly-loaded >>>> web server, and two are very heavily loaded database servers. none >>>> of them ever crash. >>>> >>> >> Matt Juszczak wrote: >> >>> Other people I've seen complain seem to be running SMP.... Not sure >>> if that has anything to do with it but its the only similiarity I can >>> pull out from any responses I've gotten. >>> >> >> I have 5 modestly powered i386 boxes on 5.4-RELEASE and the only time >> I have had any complaints regarding system stability, is when running >> an SMP kernel AND Nagios (which is a known problem - I think it's with >> Nagios rather than FreeBSD). Otherwise, I'm almost completely happy. >> > > Nagios remotely or locally? I have nagios remotely that PINGS these > machines constantly for uptime/downtime checks, but nagios isn't > actually running on them as a process... The main Nagios process, was running on the server that died. It was responsible for checking itself & the other hosts (and others not within my responsibility, but equally important). I'll be retrying running them Nagios on the SMP server, sometime soon (like in a minute or two).