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From: pauln@cstone.net (Paul Nguyen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: FreeBSD 2.1.0 System Crashes often, please help.
Date: 3 Mar 1996 05:26:29 GMT
Organization: Cornerstone Networks
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Hello,
We are having this problem with one of our webservers. The machine does fine
for 3-5 days after being installed and then it crashes. When it comes back up
it stops at the boot: prompt and then keeps on cycling through reboots. We
have tried to type kernel.old but it keeps rebooting. It looks like our file
system is hosed but I cannot tell what went wrong. This is the system
configuration and what it does.
- Pentium 133 512K pipeline cache
- 48 Megs of ram (100M Swap)
- 4gig Quantum Atlas FAST-WIDE SCSI2 (Root partition and everything
else.)
- Adaptec 2940 Ultra Wide Scsi Controller
- SMC EtherPower 10
- FreeBSD 2.1
- Has 28 virtual IP addresses
- Runs Apache 1.0.3 for the virtual web server.
- Runs tacacs+ 2.1 for authenticating Cisco 2511 routers.
- FTP Server.
This is basically all of its chores. It runs well for a few days then It
crashes and FreeBSD has to be renstalled. I was wondering if getting a
seperate hard drive for the root partition to isolate it from the other stuff
was a good idea. I was also wondering if the driver for the adaptec 2940UW is
the problem or is it just the 2940UW or the Quantum Atlas. Other than having
these problems FreeBSD is a nice OS. If anyone has had similar problems and
have since fixed it, please reply. Thanks.
-Paul