[CDBUG-talk] Hardware lockups

[Patrick Muldoon]

How much ram do you have and what is your arc set to?    I've found that if it set the arc too high and and try to run other apps on the box the box that freebsd will happily eat all your ram and the box will grind to a halt. 

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Patrick Muldoon

Typed with my thumbs on a mobile device please excuse any errors. 

> On Mar 23, 2015, at 2:00 PM, freebsd at fongaboo.com wrote:
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> 
> I have years of FreeBSD experience from a user and administration context. However, the systems I've worked on have often been physically maintained by someone else or otherwise was in a condition where hardware was not really anything I had to worry about.
> 
> I've done tons of x86 hardware troubleshooting over the years, but in a Windows or OS X context.
> 
> Me and a bunch of buddies are trying to deploy this machine as a replacement for a colo we have:
> 
> https://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=migr-58373
> 
> It's running FreeBSD 10 and we have the hardware RAID controller disabled and it has six drives in RAIDZ with GELI storage encryption.
> 
> We're finding that the machine has locked up a bunch of times. Sometimes, seemingly randomly when running background tasks/daemons. But one action we seem to be able to take to reliably instigate a lock-up is to run a portsnap extract.
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> I'm not really sure how to even begin to troubleshoot the problem. I thought I'd run it by CDBUG and see if anyone has any tips or first steps.
> 
> 
> Thanx,
> 
> FONG
> 
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