Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:45:55 +0530 From: "Jayesh Jayan" <jayesh.freebsdlist@gmail.com> To: "Jerry McAllister" <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Upgrading Freebsd 5.4 release to 5.4 stable Message-ID: <e8ecf3c00602230815v55d3c1a4k10b0b43cc66c3c1f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200602231526.k1NFQoPd006497@clunix.cl.msu.edu> References: <e8ecf3c00602230650y549cdb95gc08208834f409855@mail.gmail.com> <200602231526.k1NFQoPd006497@clunix.cl.msu.edu>
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All are Dell Poweredge servers with identical specification. I did check the message logs an couldn't find any problem What are the other aspects which I need to check so as to find a solution. On 2/23/06, Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> wrote: > > > > > That was valuable in deed .... > > > > The 12 server are all identical but the problem is that the test machin= e > > which we will be using is not of the same class as that of the server. > > > > Then all the server run a custom built kernel and not the generic one. > > > > By "mode" I meant how to go about doing this process. Is it better to g= o > the > > cvs way or the binary way ? > > > > Currently we have not yet thought of freebsd 6.0, we are thinking of > making > > the servers bit more stable with the stable version.... > > See, this is a misunderstanding of the way the word 'stable' is being > used in regards to the FreeBSD versions. It is stable only in relation > to the 'current' development track which is in almost complete flux as > people work on it daily. But in comparrison to the RELEASE verion > a STABLE version is not as "stable" (though it is usually pretty good). > It is sort of an interim version with security patches and some of the > new things that are being worked on. > > > We came to this conclusion because our servers do have a problem were > the > > server gets rebooted automatically with put any reason ( I couldn't get > any > > from the logs ) > > This is probably not related to the OS level at all. It is most likely > some hardware or power stability issue, but could be some software > thing if storage space or memory table space or some such is running out. > > > This issue is there with all the servers but the one server suffers the > most > > ( having a real bad uptime which is max of 2 days ) > > Any possibility you have something going that has a "memory leak"? > > ////jerry > > > > > I hope to get more data on the same so that the transition is done > smoothly > > .... > > > > > -- Jayesh Jayan "The box said "Requires Windows 95, NT, or better", so I installed Linux." Visit my homepage @ http://www.jayeshjayan.com
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