Joe Warren-Meeks wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm running two HPDL360 G5 servers with OpenBSD 4.6+carp+pf+pfsync as
an active/passive firewall pair.
Both are running: (full dmesg at bottom, along with edited pf.conf, in
case it's relevant)
j...@f2:/home/joe> uname -a
OpenBSD f2 4.6 GENERIC.MP#81 amd64
I've had a weird problem happen twice now. It seems after about 4 - 6
weeks of running very happily, both servers lock up completely at the
same time. Both consoles show no error messages, but the cursor is
blinking away happily. Neither console will take any input and the
only remedy is to power cycle them. There is nothing unusual in any of
the logfiles.
I'm planning on updating them to 4.7 anyway, but is this a problem
that people are aware of? Is there a fix?
Kind regards
I was running OpenBSD 4.6+carp+pf+pfsync+bgp+all errata patches (i386)
combo on a pair of IBM x345s with 1G of ram and saw the same behavior as
you roughly every 70 days. That hardware was running the same
configuration under 4.4 and never had a problem.
State load is roughly:
State Table Total Rate
current entries 5140
searches 13374145144 4114.1/s
inserts 202444638 62.3/s
removals 202439498 62.3/s
Memory/cpu load:
load averages: 0.08, 0.08, 0.08
31 processes: 30 idle, 1 on processor
CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 3.2% interrupt, 96.8%
idle
Memory: Real: 127M/323M act/tot Free: 677M Swap: 0K/2048M used/tot
I upgraded to 4.7 first to see if the problem went away before spending
time trying to debug an unreported problem on an old release. There
were a lot of changes to the PF and pfsync code between 4.6 and 4.7. So
far so good, almost 53 days with no trouble.
