-----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Staal Sent: 18 September 2011 22:59 To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: System locking up.
--As of September 18, 2011 2:29:20 PM +0100, Graeme Dargie is alleged to have said: > I have a system that is being problematic, I suspect but I cannot say for > sure it is maybe related to ZFS as I have a fairly large ZFS pool on the > machine. The system will just lock up, local console does not respond to > the keyboard, num lock still changes the led on the keyboard, the system > still responds to pings but you cannot ssh to the unit. The behaviour is > random the system can be running for 50 days plus with no issues then > suddenly it enters this state, the error logs do not show anything. --As for the rest, it is mine. Where is your swap located? I've seen similar on a ZFS system with swap on ZFS, when running low on RAM. If that's the case, you can either put in more RAM (so you don't need to use swap) or move swap to a dedicated disk/partition, that's not under ZFS control. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ 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" Swap is on the UFS boot disk, so it might be a heat/psu issue as previously suggested. Regards Graeme _______________________________________________ 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"
