Something rotten in the OS?

From: Steve Warwick (ukla_at_comcast.net)
Date: 08/22/03

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    Hey All,

    I have just had my 2nd HD crash in a year - different machine, different
    type of drive etc - the only consistency is the OS and the installed
    software.

    It looks like this is some kind of overflow????

    This problem seems to start after about a month and is indicated by there
    being fragments of the kernel config data in the daily kernel log messages.
    I asked about that on this list but people seemed to think it was just some
    kind of log rotation.

    I caught the machine a couple of months ago with nearly all the swap used
    (800meg out of 1 gig) and rebooted which kept the machine happy.

    I recently noticed the kernel log messages had the config fragments again
    and was going to to a reboot - but alas too late. The machine is down, HD is
    damaged and we are trying to get data off the drive...

    This is exactly the problem that occurred 6 months ago. That time I put it
    down to lousy overheated hosting but now I don't have that excuse.

    Has anyone seen this before?

    Does FreeBSD have to be re-booted every month for safety?

    Should I give up and use Linux?

    A frustrated sysadmin

    Steve

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