Quoting bill...@lavabit.com: > Got a bit of an oddity with OpenBSD 4.5 - it's not quite a crash, but > close. It has happened 3 times now, usually after running flawlessly for > 2-3 weeks. > > Fully up to date with 4.5-stable, running GENERIC.MP on a Dell poweredge > R300 quad-core server with 4 gig ram (dmesg below). It's used as a > firewall/NAT/vpn gateway, and as an email server. > > When the problem occurs, all services on the server stop responding > (pop,imap,smtp, etc). > > The odd thing is that it does respond to ping, and the server still routes > traffic correctly, and the vpn is up. > > The server console shows nothing out of the ordinary (white on black text > login prompt, no X11), but the console is frozen - doesn't respond to > keyboard. > > Since it doesn't actually panic, I can't run the usual debug tools. > > My only choice is to reboot. > > This is my only quad-core server with 4 gig - I'm wondering if it's > related to GENERIC.MP or all the ram. > > (I have many other openbsd 4.5 boxes, none have this issue, but they are > single-core and less than 3 gig ram) > > Any suggestions? Dell has a bios upgrade, I'll give that a try.
Just to get two things out of the way: 1) try the sp kernel, and 2) drop down to 2G of memory. A friend ran across some dell or hp system that didn't like having 4g of ram, so its an east test do do. bios upgrades are almost always a great thing to try. --STeve Andre'
