6.1 Stable keeps hanging

[Michael Vince]

Are you running tcpdump at all? that practically switches off ethernet 
for some reason on most of my Dell 6.x servers, and via ssh it feels 
like the machine has fully halted but it isn't, i normally serial in and 
manually kill the tcpdump to get back in control.

The behavior is different in jails though, if you tcpdump inside a jail, 
only the main host server stops responding but you can watch packets as 
normal inside the jail.
I don't know if this is a em driver thing or generic.
tcpdump related problems have been mounting up, first it was annoying 
that the -A option stopped working for seeing packets an ascii form, now 
machines ethernet locks up.

For machines that are past 4gigs, I run them in i386 with PAE, which I 
think works well but my biggest reason for doing this is the need for 
stable Java. But they are also affected by the ethernet lockup problems.

If your machine just started doing this and its not related to packet 
spying then its a different problem.

Mike


Denny wrote:

>no, i m not running any gui on it. when i did scp of some big size files from other place to this machine, it will freeze after a while and i cant press anything on keyboard.
>| 
>| Kaiwai Gardiner wrote on Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 06:09:07PM SGT :
>| | Just out of curiosity, when you mean 'hang' you mean the gui? have you
>| | tried disabling DRI?
>| | 
>| | Matty
>| | 
>| | On 6/2/06, Denny <denow at magix.com.sg> wrote:
>| | >here are my kernconf and dmesg
>| | >
>| | >
>| | >Alexey Karagodov wrote on Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:51:35PM SGT :
>| | >| any way, post your configs (kernel's too) and etc etc etc ...
>| | >|
>| | >| "i have a computer, it's doesn't work. what's the problem?" ...
>| | >|
>| | >|
>| | >| 2006/6/2, Denny <denow at magix.com.sg>:
>| | >| >
>| | >| >Hi,
>| | >| >
>| | >| >I am running 6.1 stable, AMD64 on Dell 2850, Intel Xeon. It keeps 
>| | >hanging
>| | >| >for no reason, no panic message or core and I have to reboot the system
>| | >| >whenever it freezes.
>| | >| >
>| | >| >Any idea where to check?
>| | >| >
>| | >| >Denny
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