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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.cstone.net!Default 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 Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4hbai5$3gd@dot.cstone.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: basement.cstone.net X-Newsreader: News Xpress Version 1.0 Beta #4 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