From: Johan Lindström (johan.jlhome.se)
Date: Wed Jan 05 2005 - 09:43:11 CST

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about that...

One of my obsd boxes (a ver 3.6 Intel PIII 500) just died on me

it's a standard pc with two IDE drives, where as one is mounted as /cargo
for (vs)ftpd use

Now, I haven't (and no one else for that matter (as far as I know =) )
accessed the FTP service for some time, thought I should checkup on the disk
usage and when I 'cd /cargo' it freezes and my ssh client times out.

What ever I end up doing about it, it would be nice to know how to prevent
this in the future.

My initial feeling tells me that something told the drives to spindown when
not used for so and so long.

I have been poking around with the 'atactl' stick inside an identical
installation (both sw and hw) though I don't really know what I am looking
for.

Would anyone care to spend a minute to shead some light over my daemon
crowded desk?

-J

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Wolman" <mikenux.co.uk>
To: <miscopenbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2005 11:46 AM
Subject: Re: 3.6 random lockup

>I had the exact same problem - i also swapped hardware - replaced machines
> tried different network cards by different vendors.
>
> Do you have any pptp clients behind the machine?
>
> I found having 2 clients running pptp client software connecting the the
> same external pptp server will cause openbsd (and freebsd) to lockup.
>
> Mike.
>
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2005, knitti wrote:
>
>>> So far I've tried swapping out the NICs, the keyboard, even the entire
>>> PC itself for another spare one I have that runs 3.6 as well. Nothing
>>> makes a difference.
>> I know, you did try to swap some hardware. But just in case: I had the
>> exact same behaviour with a box for ~1.5 years (locking up after 6 to
>> 12 weeks). The PSU died. With the new PSU it run fine ever since.
>>
>> Just in case it's more complicated: try to find a pattern: high traffic,
>> unusual traffic, lockups happen only at night or while your neighbour
>> vacuums his st.bernhards with his ultra-5000W-vac-o-matic..... (the
>> first two could indicate a problem with your os or hardware, the last two
>> indicate rather exterior problems)
>>
>> --knitti

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