looks like OOM problem,

Send dmesg, keep a window withlog open, monitor your memory usage with something
also send some conf

On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 9:11 PM Matt P. <hybrid...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I have an OpenBSD box that breaks after a week or so of running. All network 
> traffic stops reaching the box. If I look at the screen or serial output, I 
> can get the "login:" prompt, and when I enter my name I get prompted for a 
> password, but once I enter a password it hangs. Key presses and control codes 
> still show on the screen, but the login never succeeds or fails. I thought 
> control-C might cause it to go back to the login prompt, but it doesn't. I 
> have to hard reboot the box to get it back.
>
> This box runs a Wireguard server accessible from the internet, and I think 
> it's related to the crashing. I used to run the same WireGuard configuration 
> on a different OpenBSD machine (a Raspberry Pi instead of x64), and the same 
> crashing would happen. I blamed the crashing on the Pi port of OpenBSD, which 
> is why I switched machines, but it stopped happening on the Pi and started on 
> the x64 box.
>
> I'm a newbie at systems administration, and don't know where to go from here. 
> There's no kernel panics to send, and I didn't see anything in the log files 
> about the crash. What should I do?
>
> --Matt
>


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