Benson Wong wrote:
Serial console / Display shows?
Display shows nothing. It crashes to the point were I can't even type
anything in.
Does it happen at the same time every day/period?
There seems to be 2 problems, which may be related. Sometimes it
crashes so hard I have to physically reboot the server. Right now it
responds to pings (very fast) but I can't SSH in. Only seen this once
before when an NFS server died and something has been waiting for it
to recover (hard mounted).
There might be a problem with bacula trying to backup a something and
is stuck in an infinite loop. Seems to become unusably mostly after
full backups.
If yes that might indicate a software-triggered problem.
If no, perhaps check the hardware first.
If you stop bacula and let it run, does it crash?
Haven't tried that yet.
That would be a good start.
What discs/controller are you using?
SATA/SCSI?
FreeBSD drivers ata/...
3WARE 8006-2LP + 2x300GB SATA Seagate drives
I have a very similar setup at work for one of our SDs. To quote:
FreeBSD 6-STABLE
Bacula 1.38.5 (only SD and FD)
AMCC (3ware) 8000 series SATA controller
2x Western Digital discs
It has never displayed any instability.
What threading library (kse, thr) are you using for Bacula?
(Default on 6 is kse)
I believe it's default. Bacula-server was built from ports.
It will be kse unless you had deliberately changed it. It is probably
irrelevant anyway.
The system responds to pings (sometimes), but I can not SSH in. Before
it crashed so bad the local keyboard didn't even work. A reboot would
fix things, but it would become unstable again quickly. I have similar
How quickly?
Miliseonds.
Sorry, I meant how long before it becomes unstable again.
I have a daily Bacula crash which I have had for ages on FreeBSD 5.4 and
6.0. I'm pretty sure it only happens with my configurations and not the
standard ones. Something about my setup causes it to crash right before
the job to backup the catalogue, but before it actually started to run
that job. It is easy to fix, just restart bacula at midnight from cron.
One of these days I'll build a -ggdb bacula and get a core dump...
Hmm... mine is running on a local mysql. Is it better to use gdb?
Isn't mysql faster?
Well it happens with a local MySQL and a remote MySQL. I'm pretty
certain is actually not to do with the job at all and is probably a bug
in the scheduler somewhere. As for using gdb being slower I doubt very
much if you'd notice the difference between gdb and not. As for whether
MySQL is faster? I'm not sure what you mean.
Cheers,
Dom
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