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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!news.kei.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.rssi.ru!news.phys.msu.su!Radio-MSU.net!Gamma.RU!srcc!Gamma.RU!srcc!not-for-mail From: ivt@gamma.ru (Igor Timkin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 System Crashes often, please help. Date: 5 Mar 1996 04:55:18 +0300 Organization: Gamma Ltd., Moscow, Russia Lines: 51 Message-ID: <4hg6u6$hd9@crocus.gamma.ru> References: <4hbai5$3gd@dot.cstone.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: crocus.gamma.ru X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Paul Nguyen (pauln@cstone.net) wrote: : 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 : I have the same problem on news server. Configuration: FreeBSD-2.1.0R 486DX4-100, 64 Mb RAM AHA-2940UW, 4 Gb ST15230N, 4Gb ST15150W, 5Gb Wangtek 9500DC Tape Periodically (2-5 days) server is rebooted spontaneously (basically during back up). If I do dump 0f /dev/null /dev/sd0a & dump 0f /dev/null /dev/sd1a & the system crash during 5-7 minutes. This is a big problem for me. Igor