On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Mikael Bak <m...@inbox.lv> wrote: > Hi list, > > I have a system running FreeBSD 7.3. Its main function is running > Postfix SMTP server and a few perl based content filters. Nothing exotic > really. > > It has been nicely up and running approx 150 days when it suddenly > starts behaving very strange. > > First I noticed a converter script failing. It is basically a small > shell script that converts a quite big file replacing a few words using > sed. The output is mostly damaged. > > Another problem is that lots of processes exits signal 11 (core dumped). > And I need to restart them by hand. See dmesg output below. > > I know I don't give you guys much to go on. I just want to know it it's > possible to find out somehow if some hardware is failing and must be > changed. > > My first thought was overheating. But my collegue went to the site and > he said the hardware is not hot at all.
If you didn't update the OS or the apps, it is almost certainly hardware- related. Probably a bad PSU, or bad RAM. The box doesn't have to overheat when one of those are degraded. -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
