Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:35:37 +0200 From: Mikael Bak <mbak@inbox.lv> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Suddenly lots processes exits signal 11 (core dumped) Message-ID: <4DB6D839.3010809@inbox.lv> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimZ3eQmOOimQxjGJF_E12hk-SvS8Q@mail.gmail.com> References: <4DB6D082.4020907@inbox.lv> <BANLkTimZ3eQmOOimQxjGJF_E12hk-SvS8Q@mail.gmail.com>
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C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Mikael Bak <mbak@inbox.lv> wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I have a system running FreeBSD 7.3. Its main function is running >> Postfix SMTP server and a few perl based content filters. Nothing exotic >> really. >> >> It has been nicely up and running approx 150 days when it suddenly >> starts behaving very strange. >> >> First I noticed a converter script failing. It is basically a small >> shell script that converts a quite big file replacing a few words using >> sed. The output is mostly damaged. >> >> Another problem is that lots of processes exits signal 11 (core dumped). >> And I need to restart them by hand. See dmesg output below. >> >> I know I don't give you guys much to go on. I just want to know it it's >> possible to find out somehow if some hardware is failing and must be >> changed. >> >> My first thought was overheating. But my collegue went to the site and >> he said the hardware is not hot at all. > > If you didn't update the OS or the apps, it is almost certainly hardware- > related. Probably a bad PSU, or bad RAM. The box doesn't have to > overheat when one of those are degraded. > Hi, Thanks fot the fast answer! The OS is regularly updated with "freebsd-update", but only within 7.3 version. The apps are regularly updated with "portmaster". So I can't say nothig's ever changed. But I can only say that this is the only machine I've ever seen behave like this. TIA, Mikael
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