Re: Troubleshooting OpenBSD hangs

[jkv <ipwitch_(_at_)_unixcluster_(_dot_)_dk>]

> > But the system freeze does not produce any output. The cursor on the
> > directly attached monitor/keyboard still blinks, but there no response
> > to keyboard input. Same on the serial console. No replies to ping. No
> > connection on port 22.
>
> I have seen this when a motherboard has problems.  It will work for a
> while and then just freeze.   Works for a while..freeze.  The console
> freezes, network freezes, serial console freezes.  For what it's worth,
> we use OpenBSD 3.x on quite a handful of machines and never a
> hang/crash.
> -Simon.

I agree. Most times these kind of problems are hardware related.
I recently had a itx C800 board running my openbsd server, some times
processes failed with ¨Memory Fault¨, once or twice at day it crashed,
sometime it generated a panic and dumped in /var/crash - other times
it dident.

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