Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-21 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear Derek, Kris and others, Solved - thank you very much for your help! It was the ehthernet adapter. I got an Intel adapter and haven't had a single problem with freezes. Thank you very much for pointing me in the right direction. Warm regards, Zbigniew Szalbot Derek Ragona wrote: Hard to

diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Ross Penner
Hi mailing list. I've been running FreeBSD 6.2 on a computer as a gateway for my (very small) local area network. Every two weeks since I've got it up and running, it will completely lock up, seemingly randomly. I would love to investigate the root of the problem, but I'm not exactly sure where

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Philip Hallstrom
I've been running FreeBSD 6.2 on a computer as a gateway for my (very small) local area network. Every two weeks since I've got it up and running, it will completely lock up, seemingly randomly. I would love to investigate the root of the problem, but I'm not exactly sure where to start. I'm

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Derek Ragona
First you should provide more information such as the output from your dmesg, whether you have the server running X or just text mode. Describe your lockup, does the system completely freeze, or is it still ping-able? -Derek At 03:25 PM 2/15/2007, Ross Penner wrote: Hi mailing

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Start with /var/log/messages and /var/log/console and then just anything else in /var/log... look at the entries just before it hangs.. sometimes you'll get a clue as to what is causing it to panic... I also experience periodic freezes. One pattern I am able to see is that whenever

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:25:22PM -0700, Ross Penner wrote: Hi mailing list. I've been running FreeBSD 6.2 on a computer as a gateway for my (very small) local area network. Every two weeks since I've got it up and running, it will completely lock up, seemingly randomly. I would love to

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Derek Ragona wrote: First you should provide more information such as the output from your dmesg, whether you have the server running X or just text mode. In my case I do not run X, the system mostly operates mysql database and exim MTA (and this causes a bigger load sometimes up to 3.0

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 11:30:25PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: dc0: watchdog timeout Either your dc hardware or the driver is malfunctioning, so this is what you need to address. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Derek Ragona
Hard to tell if it is your dc0 ethernet adapter or a swap issue. I would try a different ethernet controller and see what happens as that is a cheap experiment. -Derek At 04:30 PM 2/15/2007, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Derek Ragona wrote: First you should provide more

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:02:27PM -0600, Derek Ragona wrote: Hard to tell if it is your dc0 ethernet adapter or a swap issue. I would try a different ethernet controller and see what happens as that is a cheap experiment. Yeah, I missed the swap message - when your system is swapping then

Re: diagnosing a reacurring system freeze

2007-02-15 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:02:27PM -0600, Derek Ragona wrote: Hard to tell if it is your dc0 ethernet adapter or a swap issue. I would try a different ethernet controller and see what happens as that is a cheap experiment. Yeah, I missed the swap message - when your