Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-22 Thread twelcome
- From: "Alan Gilmour" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 09:46:57 To:"Christian Zachariasen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc:FreeBSD Mailing Lists Subject: Re: Server crashing, no explanations I guess it can, but in the past when hardware has failed for me,

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Pratt
On May 21, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Chris Pratt wrote: On May 20, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Alan Gilmour wrote: Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache threa

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Pratt
On May 20, 2008, at 7:17 AM, Alan Gilmour wrote: Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache threads, and the loads goes way above 15. However recen

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Daniel Marsh
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Wojciech Puchar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I guess it can, but in the past when hardware has failed for me, I >> generally got some indicative errors in the logs. >> > > hardware failures are different. rarely causes reboot, or reboots ramdomly > independent of

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I guess it can, but in the past when hardware has failed for me, I generally got some indicative errors in the logs. hardware failures are different. rarely causes reboot, or reboots ramdomly independent of what you do. with bad memory it usually produces sig11 or similar errors much more of

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " [EMAIL PROTECTED]" Yeah, because hardware never fails, right Wojciech? it does. but this is software failu

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Alan Gilmour
I guess it can, but in the past when hardware has failed for me, I generally got some indicative errors in the logs. I managed to move a lot of the intensive operations across to another server and for the moment,its working much better on the other server which has a newer kernel. Cheers Alan

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-21 Thread Christian Zachariasen
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 8:34 PM, Wojciech Puchar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then, if crash dumps are enabled, it could be a HW failure.. >> > > no it is not. i have similar problems but not with apache, it is certainly > FreeBSD bug that causes it to randomly reboot under certain types of load.

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Then, if crash dumps are enabled, it could be a HW failure.. no it is not. i have similar problems but not with apache, it is certainly FreeBSD bug that causes it to randomly reboot under certain types of load. i found the way to fix it in my case _

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Gilmour
]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > > Roberto Nunnari > > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:49 AM > > To: Alan Gilmour > > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Re: Se

RE: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Tobias Hoellrich
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Roberto Nunnari > Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2008 10:49 AM > To: Alan Gilmour > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: Server crashing, no explanations > > Th

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Then, if crash dumps are enabled, it could be a HW failure.. Once I had a server crashing with no dumps, and I found out it was I power supply problem. Best regards. Robi Alan Gilmour wrote: Hi Roberto, There's nothing in /var/crash Any other ideas? Cheers Alan On 20/05/2008, Roberto Nunn

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the server is failing? or other ways to check things like CPU temp and memory status? What is the hardware vendor? Since most of the major players have decent no it is not hardware problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:17 AM 5/20/2008, Alan Gilmour wrote: Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache threads, and the loads goes way above 15. However recently the

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Gilmour
Hi Mark, I'm guessing there's not a compatible chip on the motherboard for both of those items. Its a DELL server and unfortunately we only actually have one disk on it at the moment, so there's no RAID (which is also worrying :( ) Full memory checks have been on in the past and never reported a

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Mark Foster
Alan Gilmour wrote: We tried installing mbmon and lmmon and healthd, but none seem to work. How so? Do you have an error message to share with us? Anyone got any suggestions for other things we can try to detect why the server is failing? or other ways to check things like CPU temp and mem

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Gilmour
Hi Roberto, There's nothing in /var/crash Any other ideas? Cheers Alan On 20/05/2008, Roberto Nunnari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Crash dumps should help. > > > Alan Gilmour wrote: > > > > Hey all, > > > > We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. > > The CPU is cons

Re: Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Roberto Nunnari
Crash dumps should help. Alan Gilmour wrote: Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache threads, and the loads goes way above 15. However recently

Server crashing, no explanations

2008-05-20 Thread Alan Gilmour
Hey all, We have recently been getting a lot of traffic to one of our sites. The CPU is consistently during busy periods using 100% utilisation. When this happens we have approx 150 apache threads, and the loads goes way above 15. However recently the server has been auto-restarting (when under h