Server Freezing Solid

[Roland Smith]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 06:42:39AM -0800, Chris Maness wrote:
> I am having a new problem.  I have been running FreeBSD for years with
> no crashing.  All of a sudden my server starts crashing with no panic
> messages.  I am suspecting hardware because there are no messages, but
> the CPU temp is fine.
> 
> Weird --maybe bad RAM?

Could be. But you can test RAM with e.g. memtest86.

Or it could be a bad component (e.g. a capacitator) somewhere on the
motherboard or in the powersupply. Or a spike or drop in the external power.

Roland
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