From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 16 9:20:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.musicman.com (musicman.com [139.171.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE6E37B407 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 09:20:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (johng@localhost) by www.musicman.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA66603 for ; Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:20:32 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from johng@musicman.com) Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:20:32 -0400 (EDT) From: john To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Server Freezup (fwd) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 Hi Mark, The OS is FreeBSD 4.2, with an Adaptec 2400A RAID card, 2 20GB hard drives, configured as RAID 1, 512 MB RAM. The security output after the crash shows this up until the time I did the reboot (when / was not properly dismounted): > syncing disks... > done > Uptime: 56s > Rebooting... > Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. > Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 > pid 342 (kvt), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > pid 345 (kvt), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > pid 348 (kvt), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > pid 351 (kvt), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) > fxp0: SCB timeout > fxp0: SCB timeout > fxp0: SCB timeout > fxp0: SCB timeout > fxp0: SCB timeout > fxp0: device timeout > pid 318 (communicator-4.7), uid 0: exited on signal 10 (core dumped) > WARNING: / was not properly dismounted On Tue, 11 Sep 2001, mark tinguely wrote: > > I do not see any OS version and hardware configuration. Without > any information, I would guess from the fact that this is a Apache > web server that you are exceeding the virtual memory on that machine > and you do not have the VM patch that allows the correct action of > terminating processes in this event. > > Please give more information of the symptoms, pertinate logs entries, > OS level, RAM size, swap, etc. > > --mark tinguely. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message