Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:51:29 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Jason Lieurance <jason@vipersystems.biz>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work
Message-ID:  <20050927155129.GA29789@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3721.192.168.1.135.1127830622.squirrel@vipersystems.biz>
References:  <3721.192.168.1.135.1127830622.squirrel@vipersystems.biz>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 10:17:02AM -0400, Jason Lieurance wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> Our file server is a compaq proliant 320DL 1U w/ 512MB ram, 18GB 320 scsi=
, 73GB 320
> scsi, P3 1 Ghz, running FreeBSD 4.9, samba 3.0.5.
>=20
> HAd it for about 16 months, been running great. About 3 months ago it reb=
ooted with
> nothing in the logs or any track of a problem. I chalked it up to isolate=
d glick.
> THen another reboot a month later. Now its every 9 hours give or take som=
e minutes
> and seconds. Again, nothing in the logs.
>=20
> First, I added more ram(crucial)(only had 256MB initially), no help. then=
 I ran
> memtest and running it with 128MB it uses mlock and runs and says no prob=
lems.
> Whenever I try to run memtest with more than 128, it won't mlock it(says =
can't) and
> says it will be slower and less relieable but it finishes not-the-less an=
d its ok.
>=20
> I've run fsck -fy /dev/(mount) on all the mounts. It fines and fixes stuf=
f on some
> reboots but it doesn't always fine errors(its a file server so I figure t=
here'll be
> some since files were open when it rebooted).
>=20
> I frustrated and don't know what to do.

Check power supply, CPU cooling, try putting it behind a UPS in case
your AC power is dropping out (e.g. due to increased load from
something kicking in every 9 hours, etc).

Kris

--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD)

iD8DBQFDOWqAWry0BWjoQKURAs0RAKDRgmxrAGQNGvNMxgwftqX/X6+YEgCg5OWv
xaCGmmPxAu83YJ71x9B3wVU=
=aTfH
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO--



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050927155129.GA29789>