FYI. My main (master) pfsense 2.1.x, running under VMware ESXi 5.5 started dying suddenly. Sometimes it would take a few days, sometimes less than a day. It does seem that this would happen under load, many sessions, heavy downloading, etc.
I know for a fact that it is not the ssd, configuration or overheating as the same exact configuration runs the CARP Backup (with the obvious IP and CARP changes) in the same ESXi host (same ssd, etc.). It has not crashed in the last few days after I changed the NTP config and increased the memory from 1GB to 1.2 GB. What really got me was the way it died: Completely frozen, no response or crash messages on Console, nothing in the logs, just completely dead. The CARP backup would of course take over and I would not even notice until I checked each pfsense, but it did annoy me to know that a Unix distro would just die like that. Again, this is in the same hardware and software that I have been using for pfsense for the last 2 years, with no issues until now. If I remember correctly, it was after 2.1. that I started seeing this. Even if adding more memory corrects the issue, I still don't like to know that pfsense can suddenly die and leave no clues behind :-|. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:02 PM, mayak <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 05/21/2014 10:59 PM, Stefan Baur wrote: > > Am 21.05.2014 22:53, schrieb mayak: > > > >> i'll be curious to see pc engines proposes a new mounting/heat sync > >> method. if the case had air flow slits on top and on the sides, i'd bet > >> that it would be much cooler. > > Out of curiosity, did you buy a new case for you APU or or recycle an > > old one from an ALIX board you used earlier? > > > > IIRC from other threads on here, older cases are not compatible, even > > though at first sight they seem to be. The problem with the old cases is > > indeed insufficient heat dissipation. > hi stefan, > > case was purchased and was factory installed -- it's the new one > (apparently) as the stand-offs are correctly sized to accommodate the > heat sync . > > cheers > > m > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list >
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