Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 14:19:52 -0600 From: GB Clark <gclarkii@vsservices.com> To: Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com> Cc: bsd@perimeter.co.za, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server [solved kind of] Message-ID: <20020318141952.32de330f.gclarkii@vsservices.com> In-Reply-To: <B8BA5A6F.B919%bmcalpine@macconnect.com> References: <003101c1cde3$84795920$0200000a@perimeter.co.za> <B8BA5A6F.B919%bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
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On Sun, 17 Mar 2002 14:36:31 -0500
Brendan McAlpine <bmcalpine@macconnect.com> wrote:
> It looks like qmail was causing these problems. Very weird, but true. As
> soon as I quit qmail on the server, the interface came back up and hasn't
> been down since.
>
> I rebooted the machine, allowing qmail to start up again. The machine pings
> until qmail starts up, and then the interface goes deaf.
>
> I am now digging through qmail to see what is going on.
>
> Brendan
>
> > From: "Patrick O'Reilly" <bsd@perimeter.co.za>
> > Date: Sun, 17 Mar 2002 20:42:38 +0200
> > To: "Brendan McAlpine" <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>, <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Subject: Re: HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server [solved kind of]
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Brendan McAlpine" <bmcalpine@macconnect.com>
> > To: "Patrick O'Reilly" <peri@perimeter.co.za>; <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
> > Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 6:24 PM
> > Subject: Re: HELP!! problem with new bsd mail server [solved kind of]
> >
> >
> >> At first I thought the problem was because of the dual ethernet cards.
> > So I
> >> disabled one of them in the bios settings. The machine ran better.
> > After
> >> 24 hours or so, it started going deaf every 4 or 5 hours again.
> >>
> >> BTW, I checked my log files and nothing is being logged as errors when
> > the
> >> downtime occurs. The only errors in there are:
> >>
> >> /kernel: stray irq 7
> >>
> >> I'm unsure of how to move from here....please help.....
> >>
> >
> > I'm afraid I'm out of ideas too now. Doug might be onto something, but
> > I'm not much use when it comes to talking about irqs.
> >
> > I hope you figure it out.
> >
> > Patrick.
> >
> >
>
What is the mbuf status before the machine goes quiet?
'netstat -m' output?
Also, is it strictly the network interface, or can you still logon to the console?
GB
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