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    • J
      jai23155
      last edited by

      All,
      i've been using PFsense for couple of yrs now. Recently it's been crashing more often. it used to crash once in every 30days or so since i upgraded to 2.0.1 But today it crashed every 10mins since morning. I can't get my head around with it. please help. here is the crash report
      **Filename: /var/crash/info.11
      Dump header from device /dev/ad0s1b
        Architecture: i386
        Architecture Version: 1
        Dump Length: 75264B (0 MB)
        Blocksize: 512
        Dumptime: Wed Dec 12 11:37:37 2012
        Hostname: pfsense.efc-aberdeen.com
        Magic: FreeBSD Text Dump
        Version String: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p6 #1: Mon Dec 12 18:21:58 EST 2011
          root@FreeBSD_8.0_pfSense_2.0-snaps.pfsense.org:/usr/obj./usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_Dev.8
        Panic String: Most recently used by mbuf_tag

      Dump Parity: 3865508659
        Bounds: 11
        Dump Status: good**

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      • jimpJ
        jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
        last edited by

        Not enough info in just that part of the report (need to see the full/complete one) - but just a guess, as it's mentioning mbufs, you may be running short of mbufs and need to tune some things:

        http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting_Network_Cards

        In particular, look at the nmbclusters change suggested on that page.

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          jai23155
          last edited by

          sorry, cant see crash report now. i will upload the entire report when see it next time. Mean while, I've been using an old PC with one on-board NIC and a realtek NIC. do you think upgrading WAN NIC card to 1gbps intel card will resolve the issue??

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          • stephenw10S
            stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
            last edited by

            What hardware are you using currently? The more details you give us the more likely we are spot any clues.

            However my first thought would be: hardware and software is unchanged but crashes are becoming more frequent, points to some failing hardware. Possibly bad RAM or PSU?

            Steve

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              jai23155
              last edited by

              alright, that was stable for almost 33 days and crashed again today. It is intel celeron processor with 2GB RAM (upraded from 1GB).
              thanks

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                wallabybob
                last edited by

                @jai23155:

                alright, that was stable for almost 33 days and crashed again today.

                Crash report?
                Power dip?

                This crash isn't necessarily related to previous crashes you reported. Any additional information you can provide MIGHT give a clue leading to discovery of the cause of the crash.

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                  cmb
                  last edited by

                  Looking at crash reports from the IP you're posting from, you're running a developer kernel. That will panic at times when it doesn't really need to, which appears to be what's happening there. Run the standard SMP kernel and I suspect you'll be fine, doesn't look to be a hardware problem from the crash reports.
                  http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Switching_Kernels

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                  • J
                    jai23155
                    last edited by

                    Thanks cmb, i guess i need to switch to uni-processor kernel.

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                    • jimpJ
                      jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
                      last edited by

                      We no longer include a uniprocessor kernel. You'll want to use the SMP kernel.

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                        jai23155
                        last edited by

                        Cmb, sorry for the late reply but that did the trick. how do i mark it as answer?

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