From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 15:51:31 2005 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 D4A1416A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:51:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CF9043D5C for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:51:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [70.30.70.180]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 212411A3C22; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:51:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8096E51285; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:51:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:51:29 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Jason Lieurance Message-ID: <20050927155129.GA29789@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <3721.192.168.1.135.1127830622.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="2oS5YaxWCcQjTEyO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3721.192.168.1.135.1127830622.squirrel@vipersystems.biz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: server reboots every 9 hrs like clock-work 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: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:51:31 -0000 --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--