On recent crashes

[Chris Phillips]

Chris Phillips wrote:
> 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).

OK, update on this...

I've re-instated my Nagios config on the 5.4 server 
(http://nagios.rainbow-it.net/) & will let you know if it still falls 
over again.  Fingers crossed :)