From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 20 15:16:15 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8879106567A for ; Tue, 20 May 2008 15:16:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@foster.cc) Received: from mail.bitpusher.com (mail.bitpusher.com [208.75.56.13]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5B0D8FC0C for ; Tue, 20 May 2008 15:16:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mark@foster.cc) Received: from [192.168.1.108] (dsl-242-83.zhonka.net [208.64.242.83]) by mail.bitpusher.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 236504C092; Tue, 20 May 2008 08:16:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4832EB44.4000702@foster.cc> Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 08:16:20 -0700 From: Mark Foster User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080505) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Gilmour References: <38f284ee0805200717l7008e18fud9631bf80839ceb1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <38f284ee0805200717l7008e18fud9631bf80839ceb1@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server crashing, no explanations X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 15:16:15 -0000 Alan Gilmour wrote: > We tried installing mbmon and lmmon and healthd, but none seem to work. > > How so? Do you have an error message to share with us? > Anyone got any suggestions for other things we can try to detect why > the server is failing? or other ways to check things like CPU temp and > memory status? What is the hardware vendor? Since most of the major players have decent systems management capability and cards for this sort of thing (think RSA for IBM, DRAC for Dell, etc). If you are using RAID verify the disks are OK (both physical and logical). Enable full memory check at POST (not "quick") Try diagnostics such as what comes with UBCD for memory & disk. http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ Is this system just like any others at your site or a one-off? -- Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints... Mark D. Foster, CISSP http://mark.foster.cc/