On recent crashes

[Chris Phillips]

Matt Juszczak wrote:
> Chris Phillips wrote:
> 
>>> Vivek Khera wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Jun 28, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Can anyone enlighten me, if recent crashes are on STABLE only or
>>>>> 5.4-RELEASE is affected as well?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have three boxes running 5.4-RELEASE.  one is a mediumly-loaded 
>>>> web  server, and two are very heavily loaded database servers.  none 
>>>> of  them ever crash.
>>>>
>>>
>> Matt Juszczak wrote:
>>
>>> Other people I've seen complain seem to be running SMP.... Not sure 
>>> if that has anything to do with it but its the only similiarity I can 
>>> pull out from any responses I've gotten.
>>>
>>
>> I have 5 modestly powered i386 boxes on 5.4-RELEASE and the only time 
>> I have had any complaints regarding system stability, is when running 
>> an SMP kernel AND Nagios (which is a known problem - I think it's with 
>> Nagios rather than FreeBSD).  Otherwise, I'm almost completely happy.
>>
> 
> Nagios remotely or locally?  I have nagios remotely that PINGS these 
> machines constantly for uptime/downtime checks, but nagios isn't 
> actually running on them as a process...

The main Nagios process, was running on the server that died.  It was 
responsible for checking itself & the other hosts (and others not within 
my responsibility, but equally important).

I'll be retrying running them Nagios on the SMP server, sometime soon 
(like in a minute or two).