On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:41:27PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: > Thanks for all the tips. At least I have something to start with. > > The guys in the data center reinstalled FreeBSD (the filesystem was > totally corrupted again), and then ran what they called "SMART test", > which might be smartctl, and said the hard drives look good. > > I am now able to get back in. > > So the system ran fine until I put a load on it with the database > (many transactions a second). This corrupted the file system again. > > So I guess I need to load it enough to produce error messages > (hopefully) but not enough to destroy the file system again.
I've had issues with a few hosted servers, and more often than not, it was a bad PSU on the server and/or rack. Assuming that you can't get these folks to run a good hardware diag for you, there are a few things you can do. You can beat up the RAM/cpu with various burn-in programs (I like benchmarks/stream for its simplicity -- you'll need to "make extract", customize, then ,"make install" for your own memory size). You can thrash the disks pretty well with either dd or "badblocks" from sysutils/e2fsprogs, both can be non-destructive. -- Geoff _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"