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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!nntp1.radiomail.net!csl.sri.com!facility From: gilham@lily.csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.1.0 System Crashes often, please help. Date: 09 Mar 1996 10:58:27 -0800 Organization: Computer Science Lab, SRI International Lines: 48 Sender: gilham@lily.csl.sri.com Message-ID: <u768ce6qlo.fsf@lily.csl.sri.com> References: <4hbai5$3gd@dot.cstone.net> <4hg6u6$hd9@crocus.gamma.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: lily.csl.sri.com In-reply-to: ivt@gamma.ru's message of 5 Mar 1996 04:55:18 +0300 X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <4hg6u6$hd9@crocus.gamma.ru> ivt@gamma.ru (Igor Timkin) writes: ivt@gamma.ru (Igor Timkin) wrote: -------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------- I had this problem. It drove me crazy---I could do exactly the same thing with dumps as Igor can. We run amanda backups and we'd find our fileservers crashing every time they were touched by amanda. I have four of them and have put a lot of user data on them. I was starting to get in hot water with my superiors over this situation, so I finally decided to give solaris a try. To my surprise, I couldn't get solaris to boot up all the way. This gave me pause, because it indicated that perhaps the problem wasn't FreeBSD-related after all. I eventually decided to change the motherboards. I was running no-name OPTi-chipset motherboards and changed to Intel endeavor motherboards. Now everything runs fine. I can do the exact same dump test and the system will complete both dumps. I can even do three or more partitions simultaneously. (I haven't tried to boot solaris again---I was very relieved that I wouldn't have to run it after all!) Even more, I find that the scsi transfer rate is faster. If you have the chance, you might want to give this a try. -Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com -- Fred Gilham gilham@csl.sri.com