From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 14:39:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37BFD16A41B for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:39:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from esmtp.webtent.net (esmtp.webtent.net [208.38.145.5]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0721813C4E1 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 14:39:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@webtent.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway) with ESMTP id 5BE1C7FD67 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:38:53 -0500 (EST) Received: from esmtp.webtent.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1.webtent.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-maia, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01033-02-2 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:38:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from [70.110.70.43] (columbus.webtent.org [70.110.70.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by esmtp.webtent.net (WebTent ESMTP Postfix Internet Mail Gateway) with ESMTP id 528AD800F2 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2008 09:38:21 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Fitzpatrick To: FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain Organization: WebTent Networking, Inc. Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 09:19:36 -0500 Message-Id: <1199888376.7589.6.camel@columbus.webtent.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: WebTent Mailguard 1.0.2a Subject: 5.4-RELEASE crashing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: robert@webtent.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:39:30 -0000 I upgraded memory in a 5.4-RELEASE server from 1GB (2x512MB) to 4GB (4x1GB). I'm wondering if that can even be causing my problem since nothing went wrong for an entire week. One week later, the server just stops responding in the middle of the night, I can see the login prompt, but cannot type anything, no response to keyboard at all. Since the initial crash one week after the memory upgrade, it continues to do this every couple of days. The crash has happened during the 3-4am time span every time except at 9pm once and then this morning at 9am. So, it seems it may be related to something building up over time. After reset and disk cleanup, I have examined the logs and cannot find anything in the message log, one entry shows my last login activity and the next entry is the start of boot info from the reset. The only thing I find in the logs erroneous is an NFS connection not responding, then alive again, but I unmounted and disabled the entry in fstab before it happened this morning. I'm just trying to figure out how to approach tracking down my crashing issue. Whether it somehow is related to the memory upgrade. The only thing to note about the memory upgrade is on boot, it will say that it is ignoring a small amount of memory over 4GB. Can someone suggest how to approach my problem? -- Robert