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From: stuartm@bf.rmit.edu.au (Stuart Marburg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Rebooting Issues with innd
Date: 10 Mar 1997 14:19:54 GMT
Organization: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Australia.
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Hi there,

We are currently running version 2.1.7-R of FreeBSD are are having a
number of rebooting issues - strange reboots that do not make sence.

The funny thing is that we have two other identical in every way machines
running Squid which are as stable as can be, but with inn its
crashing/rebooting etc all day. Same Motherboards, CPU's, Scsi Cards etc

Details about our System:

ahc0 <Adaptec 3940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci1:4
ahc1 <Adaptec 3940 Ultra SCSI host adapter> rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci1:5
fxp0 <Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B Fast Ethernet> rev 1 int a irq 12 on
pci0:10

We are running a Pentium Pro 200, with 256MB of RAM, and an ASCIS
<spelling?>Motherboard.

The only real difference that we have is that we have ccd0-1: Concatenated
disk drivers installed, but the server has also been tested with 
individual "disks" for News with the same result.

In all of the panic messages that I have seen, they have referred to
innd.

If anyone has any suggestions (we have done the normal things like giving
INND more memory etc, and have run news servers for the past 3 years) then
we are all ears - as this is beginning to drive me crazy.

I saw 2.2 pre-releases out there, but are a little scared to install,
especially how I have been reading that FreeBSD is one of the most stable
platforms for News, and it most certainly was until about 3 weeks ago
when we swapped out the Motherboard and the SCSI card.

Thanks for any help!
stuartm@otto.bf.rmit.edu.au