FreeBSD not-so-stable

[Andrew MacIntyre]

On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, William L Stube II wrote:

> I have a FreeBSD 4.8-Release machine that I upgraded from a 4.5 or 4.4
> machine.  It works just great for about 9 days, then processes will not
> die.  It starts to become a problem when I can't kill processes, restart
> services, connections hang, and I can't reboot or shutdown, I have to do
> a hard reset.

I have seen something like this on a 4.7 box that I tracked to a drive
with a swap partition going out to lunch.  Unfortunately that drive also
had /var on it, so no logging info was ever written.

The drive (IDE) would always come back with a reboot, but after a few days
would exhibit timeout errors (AIRC).

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