Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:39:19 +0100 From: Chris Phillips <SysAdmin@Rainbow-IT.net> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: On recent crashes Message-ID: <42C17D37.8060303@Rainbow-IT.net> In-Reply-To: <42C1776F.2060006@Rainbow-IT.net> References: <1119950428.22027.1.camel@tarkhil> <C7F95488-8AB6-48D7-85F2-9B400B8F5C31@khera.org> <42C171AA.6090802@atopia.net> <42C173D9.3010408@Rainbow-IT.net> <42C175B6.7060702@atopia.net> <42C1776F.2060006@Rainbow-IT.net>
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Chris Phillips wrote: > 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). OK, update on this... I've re-instated my Nagios config on the 5.4 server (http://nagios.rainbow-it.net/) & will let you know if it still falls over again. Fingers crossed :)
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