From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 10 06:52:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA06837 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 06:52:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (mortar.carlson.com [208.240.12.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA06827 for ; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 06:52:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from mortar.carlson.com (root@localhost) by mortar.carlson.com with ESMTP id IAA04320; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:52:12 -0600 (CST) Received: from w142844 ([172.25.99.35]) by mortar.carlson.com with SMTP id IAA04316; Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:52:03 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <00c401be5505$056cdad0$236319ac@w142844.carlson.com> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "T.D. Brace" , Subject: Re: Syncing Disks Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:52:37 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG There is a known problem with spontaneous reboots you should be aware about. Please look at the thread over the last few days. My advice would be to use 2.2-STABLE if you can until this is fixed. I have run into this on one of my machines. It "seems" to be network related. I am assuming (we know what assume means) that this is the same problem. Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com -----Original Message----- From: T.D. Brace To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, February 10, 1999 8:44 AM Subject: Syncing Disks > >Hello, > >We have a problem with some 3.0 release boxes. One just went down two >days ago. When it came back up, it hangs on syncing disks. I had a >tech (it's in a remote location) boot into single user mode, and fsck >the disks. This went fine, but when he exited from single user mode, >it again hangs on syncing disks. This is a brand new machine, worked >great for about 6 weeks - and this is the second machine to do this since >the first of the year. The other time I had the hard drive shipped to me >and I rebuilt it. I would like to avoid that this time. Anyway, here are >the machines specs in case that would be of any use: > >Abit BX6 MB with PII 400 (not overclocked). >Bus is at 100MHz. >384mb ecc sdram >adaptec 2940U2W scsi >ibm 9g u2 scsi drive. >intel etherexpress pro 100+ >generic agp video card (stb I think). >No cdrom's attached. > >It's running freebsd 3.0 release, apache 1.3.3, moderately loaded system >average of 400 processes running at any one time. Heavy use of perl >and mysql. The load averages weren't bad though, usually less than 0.5, >and on average it was 80-90% idle (from top). > >The other machine that went was identical except the drive/controller >were just wide scsi. > >Can anyone help? > >Thanks. > >-Ted > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message