> On Thu, 02.04.2009 at 00:17:35 -0600, Theo de Raadt <[email protected]> > wrote: > > This guy some of you think is so honest. He's filtering port 25 > > from cvs.openbsd.org. > > did you try sending from a different server thereafter? > > > > I've seen a failure mode where a machine appears to be up, but slowly > stops accepting ever more tcp connections over time, until the system > comes to a grinding halt, the last thing being becoming unresponsive to > ping and finally, console lockup, on several machines. They are all > different hardware, but are intel or AMD CPUs. I've seen this for a > long time (years), but have no way to reproduce it, and also no way to > catch debug info in the actual cases (eg. "boot crash" doesn't do > anything), and therefore not reported it, since you don't want > incomplete bug reports. I was so far unable to detect a pattern. A > machine usually runs fine for months, then takes a few hours or up to > 2-3 days, to get into that state. If it happens, I can usually only > press the reset button.
thanks for lesson in how the Internet works.
