From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 22 10:21:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from naiad.eclipse.net.uk (naiad.eclipse.net.uk [195.188.32.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C9837B6A6 for ; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 10:21:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk) Received: by naiad.eclipse.net.uk (Postfix, from userid 475) id 76617131F1; Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:21:03 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 18:21:03 +0000 From: Stuart Henderson To: Steve Kaczkowski Cc: "Miguel A.L. Paraz" , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Monitoring the cause of Reboots Message-ID: <20000222182103.C917@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> References: <20000222213608.B17354@tirad.internal.iphil.net> <20000222133737.F92704@naiad.eclipse.net.uk> <38B2CFD3.13D66A53@inc.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.2i In-Reply-To: <38B2CFD3.13D66A53@inc.net>; from steve@inc.net on Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:05:08PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 12:05:08PM -0600, Steve Kaczkowski wrote: > Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2000 at 09:36:08PM +0800, Miguel A.L. Paraz wrote: > > > One of our unmanned servers (3.3-RELEASE) apparently crashes and reboots > > > on its own. Is there a way for us to log the kernel panic or whatever that > > > happens? Is the crash information stored somewhere? > > > > Are you using fxp0 and ncr0 on a BX motherboard? > > I've got a number of Intel N440BX boards with FXP0 and NCR0 that I'm > about to roll out, is there something I should know about!? They may panic or double-panic under heavy load. I only ever noticed this on my squid-caches (3mbps, 20-25 hits/sec). Unexpected restarts on those machines are now only seen rarely after switching to the higher-performance SYM driver. You can find more at freebsd-questions (until freefall's disks are happier, you may need to register for GeoCrawler if you would like to search the archives). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message