From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 12 16:05:23 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D80716A4C8 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:05:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dundeemt@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78F1D43DE6 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:03:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dundeemt@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id l23so193833nfc for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:03:42 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=jLH8oLlNE8po2opznPP8NpmPlxIYWwHOC7k06/jEbwE0oOquwpxq0698FsA4psepBB0fAMPFPpmcw792RBoZhgBw0CwluG4UoVHUIBNOnEDTo1GbimiQcO1b1DAtxG0Vhehi7/1AmuCIWeABzhB6qgVl7LKLSIuk+JgFX9m2pJY= Received: by 10.82.153.5 with SMTP id a5mr136069bue.1163347421797; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:03:41 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.82.108.18 with HTTP; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:03:41 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5aaed53f0611120803p37cdad73ld722bf822cb0ccbe@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 10:03:41 -0600 From: "Jeff Hinrichs - DM&T" Sender: dundeemt@gmail.com To: "FreeBSD Questions" In-Reply-To: <20061111195632.GA8718@xor.obsecurity.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <83083882-E193-445F-AF3D-E3ECD1E243B1@hughes.net> <20061111063049.GA81772@xor.obsecurity.org> <608516EC-BBD0-40E7-A773-2E8056981FAA@hughes.net> <20061111195632.GA8718@xor.obsecurity.org> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 2eefaf4d3e498d1c Subject: Re: 6.x hangs on AMD64 again 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: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 16:05:23 -0000 On 11/11/06, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 11:15:54AM -0800, Chris wrote: > > > > > >If your system is hanging then you need to configure additional > > >debugging to figure out the cause. Read the chapter on kernel > > >debugging the developers handbook; without this information no > > >developer can help you. > > > > > >Kris > > > > > >P.S. In my testing SMP amd64 is quite stable even under exceptionally > > >heavy loads, so it's either something related to your hardware or your > > >particular workload. > > > > Hadn't considered that a user level debugging solution. I'll give it > > a try. > > > > We had considered it possibly related to our mix because the SuperMicro > > dual xeon we are trying to replace it with was rebooting (not hanging) > > without any error messages every 15-20 days. I thought it was failing > > hardware. It's on 6.1 R P10. Maybe related in some way. > > That is indeed almost always failing hardware. > > Kris > > > I had a similiar issue of rebooting or more specifically shutting down. The BIOS would also loose it's config. After some hardware swapping it turned out to be the power supply. -- Jeff Hinrichs Dundee Media & Technology, Inc jeffh@dundeemt.com