Re: On recent crashes

From: Chris Phillips (SysAdmin_at_Rainbow-IT.net)
Date: 06/28/05

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    Matt Juszczak wrote:
    > Chris Phillips wrote:
    >
    >>> Vivek Khera wrote:
    >>>
    >>>>
    >>>> On Jun 28, 2005, at 5:20 AM, Alex Povolotsky wrote:
    >>>>
    >>>>> Can anyone enlighten me, if recent crashes are on STABLE only or
    >>>>> 5.4-RELEASE is affected as well?
    >>>>>
    >>>>
    >>>> I have three boxes running 5.4-RELEASE. one is a mediumly-loaded
    >>>> web server, and two are very heavily loaded database servers. none
    >>>> of them ever crash.
    >>>>
    >>>
    >> Matt Juszczak wrote:
    >>
    >>> Other people I've seen complain seem to be running SMP.... Not sure
    >>> if that has anything to do with it but its the only similiarity I can
    >>> pull out from any responses I've gotten.
    >>>
    >>
    >> I have 5 modestly powered i386 boxes on 5.4-RELEASE and the only time
    >> I have had any complaints regarding system stability, is when running
    >> an SMP kernel AND Nagios (which is a known problem - I think it's with
    >> Nagios rather than FreeBSD). Otherwise, I'm almost completely happy.
    >>
    >
    > Nagios remotely or locally? I have nagios remotely that PINGS these
    > machines constantly for uptime/downtime checks, but nagios isn't
    > actually running on them as a process...

    The main Nagios process, was running on the server that died. It was
    responsible for checking itself & the other hosts (and others not within
    my responsibility, but equally important).

    I'll be retrying running them Nagios on the SMP server, sometime soon
    (like in a minute or two).
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