Freebsd 6-Stable lockups

[chris scott]

thecommentsabout old hardware are interesting as all my kit is at least 4 
years old. Its a bit hit and miss though
I have3 systems on 6-stable, only one has the problem. These are the basic 
specs of the systems.

system 1 - one that freezes
this is the current hardware
x2 intel 550 p3
intel  440GX chipset
2 x 512meg ECC pc133 ram, 1 x 128 meg ECC ram
fxp and xl0

old hardware that also freezes was
x2 p3 1 ghz
severworks chipset(asus CUSL2-LS)
2 x 512meg ECC
fxp and xl0


system 2
AMD athlon tbird 700
amd 750 irongate
256 meg  ddr
ep and xl


system 3
2x450 intel p3 slot cpu
intel 440bx
1x 512, 1 x 128
xl, dc, and sis

all machines are using pata drives

looking at the specs, bith the flakey boxes are runniung ecc ram
is anyone having these issues who isnt running ecc ram?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Beckers" <paul at nuonsolarteam.com>
To: "chris scott" <chris.scott at uk.tiscali.com>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 6:21 PM
Subject: Re: Freebsd 6-Stable lockups


> Hi Chris,
>
> I've noticed the same on three of my FreeBSD 6 systems, until now I 
> haven't found any clue on this. FreeBSD 5 stable was no problem,  FreeBSD 
> 6 is quite a mess with no trace at all on what might have  caused the 
> machine to freeze. I agree with you that it could very  well be a user 
> application problem because my kernel config is quite  trivial, my 
> updating routines (cvsup and portupgrade) are trivial and  actually the 
> whole configuration of my box isn't exciting. I've  opened a thread at 
> bsdforums.org and posted an email on this mailing  list as well.
> http://www.freebsdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38765.
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-October/ 
> 030225.html
> Perhaps, comparing both configurations could identify the bad 
> application.
>
> Kind Regards,
> Paul M.C. Beckers
>
> On Nov 1, 2006, at 6:09 PM, chris scott wrote:
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>> Hi all,
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>> I have a kind of anoying problem at the moment. A system I run  keeps 
>> radomly freezing/locking up. This can be anywhere from 2  hours to a week 
>> after the last reboot/lockup. The only fix its to  power cycleit. It isnt 
>> kernel panicing, it just locks. Even  accessing  via serial doent work. I 
>> have  changed all the hardware  so the issue is unlikely to be there. The 
>> load on the box isnt all  that high and the memory usage looks fine (all 
>> rrded). The box is  running quite a lot of services (apache, mysql,exim. 
>> spamassasing,  clamav, courier, openvpn, zebra). Usually all these 
>> services, apart  from openvpn and zebra,  run in a jail. I dont think 
>> this is an  issue as the machine still freezes if i run them non jailed. 
>> Deactivating all these services apart from openvpn and zebra  (needed for 
>> monitoring), seems to fix the problem from what I can  see so im fairly 
>> sure the problem lies in these somewhere. However  can anoyone suggest I 
>> way i can easily pinpoint the problem other  that stepping though each 
>> app, as this would take an age to perform  and be very tedious.
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>> The system has been  rebuilt from src (make world) several times,  and I 
>> have dont a portupgrade  -a. All the local installations  were  done from 
>> ports.
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>> I have tried running a debug kernel, but it didnt seem to yeild  much 
>> useful info.
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>> Im running 6-stable( last build 4 days ago )
>> its an SMP kernel on 1 gig intels
>> with 1.2gig ram
>> 2 x 80 gig ide hd
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