From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 8 13:27:43 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 215FDF87 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 13:27:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (home.parts-unknown.org [50.250.218.161]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0343A2270 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 13:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D1F598CDCF for ; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 06:27:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DF801598CDCC; Fri, 8 Aug 2014 06:27:35 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2014 06:27:35 -0700 From: David Benfell To: freebsd-questions Subject: it keeps crashing and I don't know why Message-ID: <20140808132735.GA2102@home.parts-unknown.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="jRHKVT23PllUwdXP" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP on home.parts-unknown.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2014 13:27:43 -0000 --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, This is on my new server. I seem to have made a couple mistakes that I know about. First, I followed the default installation in only creating a 4GB swap partition. It has 16GB of memory. I'm not getting crash dumps. (Not that I have any idea how to deal with a crash dump once I have one.) Second, I went to 10/stable rather than sticking with 10/release. 10/stable seems fine (except for booting) on my notebook. But I have no idea why this server keeps crashing. It does not crash at predictable intervals. It will sometimes go several hours without crashing. Sometimes it only goes a few minutes. The network seems somehow involved. Sometimes--not always--it will hang rather than reboot. When it does this, it also hangs the network for everybody who's on it, not just the server itself. All I have to do is unplug the ethernet cable and plug it back in: Then it will--I guess--do its panic and reboot. But there is no clue that I know where to find in the logs. It's ugly. Databases get corrupted. Sometimes fsck needs to be run manually. Also, ipfw doesn't start properly and I have to run the script manually. This baby can't be left unattended. I'm thinking I need 1) to revert to release; and 2) increase the swap allocation. The latter would entail shrinking the root partition to allow for an increase in the swap partition (this is GPT). This requires a reinstallation, right? --=20 David Benfell See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT5NBHAAoJEBV64x4SNmAr7+8QAIpFqHUiM/y4MTs9s5hZZFgv sbDbJAAMHk64TaZAagZVdS40MyAk6/yTnHgbwW3f+hfLUDSRKYoo7hD+Q6gITeUd /rYG8FuaGqaG25wAztN3ZJS2Gapuf58GTloolaUEyXQm3PreINdZwIjRle3gbzWf 8FVMKous1FmgMUrQfrpbqVA1tus0+QrSouf8VarJmQ0vGaIA2h6dSK46jMZ8UZfo A6N+i6StQq3HzTUtst79+3vhubksQa3RPVOhkffMxsrJY2/TocfEQ/xIPZUJ1FXs zGVvYpe0ErLmozMJtmhObVvlH6XhNbdynuTSyZyQK1qsdfpn6u3UYdfTU6vw+aU4 qnL/63Zj0JiPjhHUVJaqBv/3Zx5NWkyV1G4VcRfOUbMhozfIqktIEd8wGD8i/H1D gC8lAxQ12plEyL9EU5njtFfHLjc8+Dj1Rj4Th5oyM+td9LgKuewiSGHV8bj4nLqP nWT2MmrTmoRngbAxMg9A8t1m3DddBWGPShsAdaN+OaBLKqSRkMPyasghhZU3n6io ASgubSv4+dRep6CnfQDBwjqj66NdfB5HPUL3x9sZjAdj5o33Rrby7mmcAYsqJdjZ 6rR0VP+DXzV3cBk3+enFtDbujR84WOvKvVWSbR6vlM3ffpkIswIhYr7x5BBS/Ofa 2v/OSagCmCX1xu2wuIcu =dZdw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --jRHKVT23PllUwdXP--