Re: Mysterious reboot, suspecting hardware issue

2006-02-28 Thread Robert Slade
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 04:25, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, Running an Amanda server on a dual P III, with 256 MB ram and dual Symbios SCSI adapter. Part of the hard disk are mounted in RAID with vinum on the first SCSI adapter. The Tandberg tape drive is on the second SCSI adapter. FreeBSD is:

Mysterious reboot, suspecting hardware issue

2006-02-27 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Running an Amanda server on a dual P III, with 256 MB ram and dual Symbios SCSI adapter. Part of the hard disk are mounted in RAID with vinum on the first SCSI adapter. The Tandberg tape drive is on the second SCSI adapter. FreeBSD is: FreeBSD amanda.cs.ait.ac.th 4.11-RELEASE-p14 FreeBSD

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-22 Thread Robin Vley
Robert Huff wrote: Robert, I have a -CURRENT machine - P4, 512mb RAM, SCSI disks, de-driver ethernet, all mainstream hardware - that has this problem. Since early last year (maybe longer) it will occasionally reboot. Actually, I had it on three machines now. First on a P4 I leased in

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
Olivier Nicole mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /var/log/messages just shows a user connectig via pop, and then the next line is the machine booting. Does the reboot correspond to the rainstorm? Do you have UPS? If time matches and no UPS I'd highly suspect a micro power faillure, that

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:46:19AM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: Afte being up for more than two months, I just noticed that my ver reliable and stable server mysteriously rebooted. I've had the same hardware and system setup for more than a year and haven't ever experienced anything like this

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
Alex de Kruijff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:46:19AM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: Afte being up for more than two months, I just noticed that my ver reliable and stable server mysteriously rebooted. I've had the same hardware and system setup for more than a year

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Tamouh H.
Alex de Kruijff mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 01:46:19AM -0600, Mike Loiterman wrote: Afte being up for more than two months, I just noticed that my ver reliable and stable server mysteriously rebooted. I've had the same hardware and system setup for more

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
Wouter Spierenburg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try adding the following to /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.maxfiles=65535 kern.maxfilesperproc=2 net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets=10 kern.ipc.somaxconn=2048 then 'cd' to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf cp GENERIC SERVER vi

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-16 14:32, Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouter Spierenburg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try adding the following to /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.maxfiles=65535 kern.maxfilesperproc=2 net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0 net.inet.ip.maxfragpackets=10

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Robin Vley
Mike Loiterman wrote: Mike, Wouter, Before I make these changes, I would like to just get a second opinion from the list about their value and what impact, if any, they might have on system stability, compatibility, etc. I don't know really how to set the maxfiles parameter (mine is at 32000

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
Giorgos Keramidas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-16 14:32, Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouter Spierenburg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try adding the following to /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.maxfiles=65535 kern.maxfilesperproc=2 net.inet.tcp.delayed_ack=0

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Tamouh H.
Well, the server is an email/web server primarily. Not a huge load, but I want to be hardened against DOS attacks...would these help? If you are looking to harden your server, this might be helpful. Though a bit outdates, it still holds true for most part:

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-02-16 15:18, Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Giorgos Keramidas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2006-02-16 14:32, Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouter Spierenburg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try adding the following to /etc/sysctl.conf: kern.maxfiles=65535

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Robert Huff
Robin Vley writes: My machine also has trouble with sudden reboots. Much quicker than weeks though, I barely hold out for 5 days. And three shall be the number of the counting I have a -CURRENT machine - P4, 512mb RAM, SCSI disks, de-driver ethernet, all mainstream

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
I've also been observing my system...even when mail load from these mini-attacks is heaviest, maybe 800 messages a second, the system load barly goes over idle. There appeas to have been two such attacks. It's a 2.8 ghz machine with 3 gigs of RAM, it should be well able to handle that load

RE: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-16 Thread Mike Loiterman
Olivier Nicole mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've also been observing my system...even when mail load from these mini-attacks is heaviest, maybe 800 messages a second, the system load barly goes over idle. There appeas to have been two such attacks. It's a 2.8 ghz machine with 3 gigs of

Mysterious reboot

2006-02-15 Thread Mike Loiterman
Afte being up for more than two months, I just noticed that my ver reliable and stable server mysteriously rebooted. I've had the same hardware and system setup for more than a year and haven't ever experienced anything like this before. I haven't added any new hardware in a very long time. I

Re: Mysterious reboot

2006-02-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
/var/log/messages just shows a user connectig via pop, and then the next line is the machine booting. Does the reboot correspond to the rainstorm? Do you have UPS? If time matches and no UPS I'd highly suspect a micro power faillure, that other machines could over go, but that this specific