From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 28 16:39:25 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 5137A16A41C for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:39:25 +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 E726C43D4C for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:39:24 +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 80A4222869 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:39:23 +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 33363-03 for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:39:18 +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 BBE672281F for ; Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:39:18 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <42C17D37.8060303@Rainbow-IT.net> Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 17:39:19 +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> <42C1776F.2060006@Rainbow-IT.net> In-Reply-To: <42C1776F.2060006@Rainbow-IT.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 16:39:25 -0000 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 :)