Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:13:04 +1100 From: jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: What makes my FreeBSD 3.3 RELEASE machine crash? Message-ID: <v0420550eb49efcd31c66@[1.1.1.3]>
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Hi folx
What are the most common causes of a FreeBSD machine to crash? (When
I say "crash", I mean reboot for no apparent reason).
Can anyone suggest how I might track down what is causing my server
to crash? I now have a feeling it might be hardware related, but this
could be nonsense. It could be some of the software I'm running on it
I suppose.
I was doing a `rm -R /usr/ports` (as I had stuffed it up) and it just
crashed and rebooted itself. This is obviously a fairly intensive IO
task, but it shouldn't cause the machine to crash.
Also running at the time were Apache 1.3.9, Big Brother 1.3a, Bind 8,
sshd, and others.
The machine is a Digital Venturis 575 - 75MHz pentium with 72Mb Ram,
256Mb Swap partition.
Until recently it had Red Hat LInux 5.1 on it, which crashed quite
regularly too, but people tell me this was a very buggy version of
linux so I wasn't to suprised. However, I am very suprised that in
the first month of FreeBSD 3.3 Release being on the box it has
crashed twice.
How can I go about tracking down the problem? I mean I can try doing
different things, but some advice on what people feel may be the
problem would be very helpful. - am I expecting too much from the
box, or does it sound like a hardware fault, or should I simply
upgrade to a new -stable? What do people thing?
cheers
jesse
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