Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 10:03:22 +0930 (CST) From: Dave Edwards <davo@katy.apana.org.au> To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: sa-tech@tierzero.apana.org.au (Apana SA Technical Group) Subject: Slow death of a server Message-ID: <199606080033.KAA20173@katy.apana.org.au>
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Hi again, I'm sure I've seen something like this before but can't find the reference at the moment, so forgive me if its faq. On all three of our servers, one running news, a web server, and a serial router, we have had them fail in a consistent way. They continue to route traffic and are pingable but will not respond either on the console, open telnet sessions or start new telnet sessions. Nothing is logged as to what may have caused the problem. The root directories do not grow at all (/tmp and /var are linked to /usr/?), I ran a cron job every 5 minutes for a while on one of the machines logging numbers of processes, uptime, df output and swapinfo. This did not show any steady increase to any of the parameters apart from the usual peaks and lows. The servers are all 486 machines with between 8 and 16 Meg of RAM, one using scusi and the others ide. We have upgraded one of them (the news server) to -stable and we will be moving another over today in the hope this may fix the problem. Can anyone give a hint as to why this should be happening to me? I'm sure I was a good guy in my previous life :) ciao dave -- Dave Edwards davo@katy.apana.org.au || davo@frisbee.net.au Adelaide, South Australia ----
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