FreeBSD5.4-Release reboots under disk load - where to start
troubleshooting?
Gorski, Jim
Jim.Gorski at xerox.com
Fri Sep 30 12:04:07 PDT 2005
Hi all,
Long time reader - first time poster.
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Short version of the questions:
Troubleshooting unlogged resets in FreeBSD5.4 - suggestions?
Is 4.11 a better choice for systems that have shown instability under
5.4?
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Long rambling versions:
My system worked flawlessly under Fedora Core 3 and 4, but I have been
recently impressed with the stability and performance of FreeBSD on two
of my older servers (both 5.x) at home. One of them is at almost eight
months of uptime,
and the last reset was a power outage!
Anyhow my problem system ran fine under minimal load for a week. Using
ports to install Enlightenment, Samba, Evolution - no issues.
Copying about 20GB of MP3 to a Samba share caused the system to reboot.
Nothing listed in the system logs, no heat/power problems in the BIOS
and
nothing funny (other than a fsck) when it started up again.
This error repeated when using Pan to snag a bunch of binary files from
a newsreader.
One minute everything is fine - then black screen and reboot.
Unfortunately this failure mangled the root partition, and I was not
skilled enough to
recover the data.
I have run memtest and a SMART disk health utility against the system no
errors
The system ran Fedora fine for about a year before the switch to BSD.
Last night I installed 5.4 again and installed nothing by a program
called dvdbackup
using the ports collection. First time I tried to backup a DVD, the same
symptom.
Tonight I will try FreeBSD4.11, but if I see the same issue I may have
to return to the
Linux installs of my past (sigh).
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Thank you for your insight,
Jim Gorski
jim (@t) jimgorski (dt) com
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