From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 18 12:20:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from primus.vsservices.com (primus.vsservices.com [63.66.136.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FBDF37B416 for ; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 12:20:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from prime.vsservices.com (conr-adsl-dhcp-26-38.txucom.net [209.34.26.38]) by primus.vsservices.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g2IKJqk16138; Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:19:52 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from gclarkii@vsservices.com) Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:19:52 -0600 From: GB Clark To: Brendan McAlpine Cc: bsd@perimeter.co.za, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server [solved kind of] Message-Id: <20020318141952.32de330f.gclarkii@vsservices.com> In-Reply-To: References: <003101c1cde3$84795920$0200000a@perimeter.co.za> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 14:36:31 -0500 Brendan McAlpine wrote: > It looks like qmail was causing these problems. Very weird, but true. As > soon as I quit qmail on the server, the interface came back up and hasn't > been down since. > > I rebooted the machine, allowing qmail to start up again. The machine pings > until qmail starts up, and then the interface goes deaf. > > I am now digging through qmail to see what is going on. > > Brendan > > > From: "Patrick O'Reilly" > > Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:42:38 +0200 > > To: "Brendan McAlpine" , > > Subject: Re: HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server [solved kind of] > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Brendan McAlpine" > > To: "Patrick O'Reilly" ; > > Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 6:24 PM > > Subject: Re: HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server [solved kind of] > > > > > >> At first I thought the problem was because of the dual ethernet cards. > > So I > >> disabled one of them in the bios settings. The machine ran better. > > After > >> 24 hours or so, it started going deaf every 4 or 5 hours again. > >> > >> BTW, I checked my log files and nothing is being logged as errors when > > the > >> downtime occurs. The only errors in there are: > >> > >> /kernel: stray irq 7 > >> > >> I'm unsure of how to move from here....please help..... > >> > > > > I'm afraid I'm out of ideas too now. Doug might be onto something, but > > I'm not much use when it comes to talking about irqs. > > > > I hope you figure it out. > > > > Patrick. > > > > > What is the mbuf status before the machine goes quiet? 'netstat -m' output? Also, is it strictly the network interface, or can you still logon to the console? GB -- GB Clark II | Roaming FreeBSD Admin gclarkii@VSServices.COM | General Geek CTHULU for President - Why choose the lesser of two evils? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message