FreeBSD -STABLE servers repeatedly crashing.

[Matt Juszczak]

Gleb Smirnoff wrote:

>On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 01:01:09AM -0400, Matt Juszczak wrote:
>M> About three weeks ago, I upgraded my 5.3-RELEASE boxes to 5.4-RELEASE.  
>M> I also turned on procmail globally on our mail server.  Here is our 
>M> current FreeBSD server setup:
>M> 
>M> URANUS  -  primary ldap
>M> CALIBAN -  secondary ldap
>M> ORION     -  primary mail
>M> 
>M> Orion was the first one to crash, about three weeks ago.  Orion is 
>M> constantly talking to uranus, because uranus is our primary ldap server 
>M> (we have a planet scheme), and caliban is our secondary ldap server.  I 
>M> ran an email flood test on orion to see if I could crash it again.  This 
>M> time, the high requests on Uranus caused Uranus to crash. With two 
>M> different servers on two different hardware setups crashing, I had to 
>M> start thinking of what could be causing the problem.
>M> 
>M> Memory tests on both servers came back OK.  Orion had some ECC errors 
>M> which it was able to fix.  I wasn't able to catch orion's first crash, 
>M> but I was able to catch uranus's first crash:
>M> 
>M> http://paste.atopia.net/126
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>Can you please build kernel with debugging and obtain a crashdump?
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Ever since I setup the debug kernel the machine is now crashing every 12 
hours.  I think I have to switch to OpenBSD or 4.11 FreeBSD because this 
box can't keep crashing.  It  refuses to do a crash dump.

-Matt