Jo Rhett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About 10 days ago one of my personal machines started hanging at > random. This is the first bit of instability I've ever experienced on > this machine (2+ years running) > > FreeBSD triceratops.netconsonance.com 6.2-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 6.2- > RELEASE-p11 #0: Wed Feb 13 06:44:57 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > :/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > After about 2 weeks of watching it carefully I've learned almost > nothing. It's not a disk failure (AFAIK) it's not cpu overheat (now > running healthd without complaints) it's not based on any given > network traffic... however it does appear to accompany heavy cpu/disk > activity. It usually dies when indexing my websites at night (but not > always) and it sometimes dies when compiling programs. Just heavy > disk isn't enough to do the job, as backups proceed without > problems. Heavy cpu by itself isn't enough to do it either. But if > I start compiling things and keep going a while, it will eventually > hang.
I had exactly the same problems on a machine a few months ago. It had also been running for about two years, then started freezing when there was high CPU + disk activity. It turned out that the power supply went weak (either the power supply itself or the voltage regulators on the main- board). Replacing PS + mainboard solved the problem. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "C++ is the only current language making COBOL look good." -- Bertrand Meyer _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
