Hi,
I have set up a freebsd 8 server for personal use. I updated to 8-STABLE due to instability with the if_vge driver. Everything else seems to run fine (the layout is the following: the root system, and three jails: a service one running nginx as a proxy over the two other jails, which run various servers).
Only problem: every day at 4AM the server becomes inaccessible. The last two lines in /var/log/cron are always the same:
I can still ping the server, but ssh, http, bind, etc are no more available.
At the beginning, if the first command ran at 4AM was from one of the jails (for instance, I forgot to disable /usr/libexec/save-entropy), this command ate 100% of the CPU and only servers running in jails became unavailable (cron from host didn't launch commands anymore). As I disabled useless periodic entries from jails, it is the host which launches commands first at 4AM and stops responding.
The hardware is the following:
- VIA-C7 cpu @ 2 ghz, with padlock built into kernel
- VGE network interface
- 2 x 150 GB hdd, no RAID.
Any idea to correct this strange behavior would be welcome!
Thank you.
I have set up a freebsd 8 server for personal use. I updated to 8-STABLE due to instability with the if_vge driver. Everything else seems to run fine (the layout is the following: the root system, and three jails: a service one running nginx as a proxy over the two other jails, which run various servers).
Only problem: every day at 4AM the server becomes inaccessible. The last two lines in /var/log/cron are always the same:
Code:
Mar 14 04:00:00 ygg /usr/sbin/cron[21493]: (root) CMD (newsyslog)
Mar 14 04:00:00 ygg /usr/sbin/cron[21494]: (root) CMD (/usr/libexec/atrun)
I can still ping the server, but ssh, http, bind, etc are no more available.
At the beginning, if the first command ran at 4AM was from one of the jails (for instance, I forgot to disable /usr/libexec/save-entropy), this command ate 100% of the CPU and only servers running in jails became unavailable (cron from host didn't launch commands anymore). As I disabled useless periodic entries from jails, it is the host which launches commands first at 4AM and stops responding.
The hardware is the following:
- VIA-C7 cpu @ 2 ghz, with padlock built into kernel
- VGE network interface
- 2 x 150 GB hdd, no RAID.
Any idea to correct this strange behavior would be welcome!
Thank you.