Current Time: Monday, 15-Apr-2002 01:36:55 PDT
Restart Time: Sunday, 14-Apr-2002 22:09:33 PDT
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 3 hours 27 minutes 22 seconds
Total accesses: 793978 - Total Traffic: 17.1 GB
CPU Usage: u244.961 s1645.89 cu6.28906 cs2.73438 - 15.3% CPU load
63.8 requests/sec - 1.4 MB/second - 22.6 kB/request
432 requests currently being processed, 160 idle servers

id presume the box would be classed as "full" and you would need another box to handle more processes, etc...

Current Time: Monday, 15-Apr-2002 23:30:44 PDT
Restart Time: Sunday, 14-Apr-2002 22:09:33 PDT
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 1 day 1 hour 21 minutes 11 seconds
Total accesses: 5543462 - Total Traffic: 113.2 GB
CPU Usage: u774.07 s5303.83 cu24.2031 cs11.0781 - 6.7% CPU load
60.7 requests/sec - 1.3 MB/second - 21.4 kB/request
520 requests currently being processed, 177 idle servers


Should I increase my max spare servers?

MaxSpareServers 300

Reasonable values of Min and Max SpareServers are the square root of the average number of servers and three times the square root respectively (simple statistics: The standard deviation scales proportionally to the square root of the average). In this case, 25 and 75 would be reasonable values.

Until you reach the preset maximum number of processes, Apache will spawn more processes to keep the number of idle servers within the given range.

=/ I don't know what the heck is going on. I had 3 people take a look at my server and they said everything looks fine. 1 looked at the hardware and 2 looked at my configes and they said everything looks fine. It just crashed again this morning

750 processes: 2 running, 748 sleeping
CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle
Mem: 553M Active, 1159M Inact, 202M Wired, 93M Cache, 214M Buf, 4564K Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 68K Used, 2048M Free

CPU states: 2.3% user, 0.0% nice, 12.4% system, 1.7% interrupt, 83.5% idle
Mem: 555M Active, 1169M Inact, 200M Wired, 84M Cache, 214M Buf, 3008K Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 68K Used, 2048M Free
last pid: 7246; load averages: 0.55, 2.31, 4.13 up 1+01:24:27 23:33:14
Mem: 555M Active, 1169M Inact, 200M Wired, 84M Cache, 214M Buf, 3020K Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 68K Used, 2048M Free

Won't my server load sky rocket if I lower my MaxSpareServers?

Can you give us a few more details? What operating system you're using, what the hardware is, how often it crashes, and any syslog entries around the critical periods would all be helpful.

But Colin,

Whatever happened to your superlative signature?

Cheers
Balaji

I got tired of it. I might bring it back some day.

Originally posted by cperciva
Can you give us a few more details? What operating system you're using, what the hardware is, how often it crashes, and any syslog entries around the critical periods would all be helpful.


Freebsd+Plesk

Dual 1.13 Cpus + 2 Gig ram

Crashed two times this morning. What and where do I look in my syslog?

Looking in the syslogs might provide some useful information on why it's crashing. In my experience when a *nix machine starts randomly crashing, a likely culprit is bad RAM. I'm not saying it's the case here, but without additional information it would be the first thing I'd investigate.

If you `cat /etc/syslog.conf` you'll see where syslog entries are being sent. Unless Plesk has changed it, most of the important stuff will be in /var/log/messages

bash-2.05# cat /etc/syslog.conf
# $FreeBSD: src/etc/syslog.conf,v 1.13.2.2 2001/02/26 09:26:11 phk Exp $
#
# Spaces are NOT valid field separators in this file.
# Consult the syslog.conf(5) manpage.
*.err;kern.debug;auth.notice;mail.crit /dev/console
*.notice;kern.debug;lpr.info;mail.crit;news.err /var/log/messages
security.* /var/log/security
mail.info /var/log/maillog
lpr.info /var/log/lpd-errs
cron.* /var/log/cron
*.err root
*.notice;news.err root
*.alert root
*.emerg *
# uncomment this to log all writes to /dev/console to /var/log/console.log
#console.info /var/log/console.log
# uncomment this to enable logging of all log messages to /var/log/all.log
#*.* /var/log/all.log
# uncomment this to enable logging to a remote loghost named loghost
#*.* @loghost
# uncomment these if you're running inn
# news.crit /var/log/news/news.crit
# news.err /var/log/news/news.err
# news.notice /var/log/news/news.notice
!startslip
*.* /var/log/slip.log
!ppp
*.* /var/log/ppp.lo

Current Time: Tuesday, 16-Apr-2002 00:51:16 PDT
Restart Time: Tuesday, 16-Apr-2002 00:41:37 PDT
Parent Server Generation: 0
Server uptime: 9 minutes 39 seconds
Total accesses: 61572 - Total Traffic: 1.1 GB
CPU Usage: u17.3672 s118.086 cu0 cs0 - 23.4% CPU load
106 requests/sec - 2.0 MB/second - 19.0 kB/request
568 requests currently being processed, 131 idle servers

My servers getting hit pretty hard. 1 gig in 10 minutes

Is there anything in /var/log/messages ?

What are you doing with that server anyway? I don't know many sites which pull 15Mbps...

/var/log/

Lot's of files in there but don't know what to look for and which file to look at. It's a freehost.

Whoops, I rushed it. Ok theres a "message" file. I think its too large to paste here

Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: da0: 35003MB (71687370 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4462C)
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
Apr 16 07:41:31 bsd1 /usr/local/psa/named/sbin/named[238]: starting BIND 9.1.3 -c /etc/named.conf -u bind -t /usr/local/psa/named/run-root
Apr 16 07:41:32 bsd1 /usr/local/psa/named/sbin/named[238]: the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'

/var/log/messages

When the system reboots there will be about 30 lines in there starting with "/kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project."

Can you show me maybe 10 lines preceeding that?

Just crashed again

last pid: 1431; load averages: 15.06, 10.42, 7.00 up 0+00:30:52 01:10:47
824 processes: 2 running, 822 sleeping
CPU states: 2.1% user, 0.0% nice, 13.2% system, 3.5% interrupt, 81.2% idle
Mem: 373M Active, 168M Inact, 192M Wired, 191M Cache, 214M Buf, 1087M Free
Swap: 2048M Total, 2048M Free

Originally posted by ClusterMania
load averages: 15.06, 10.42, 7.00

That's odd. The load average shouldn't be getting that high with only 20% cpu utilization.

Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #2: Wed Apr 10 05:25:02 PDT 2002
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: root@bsd1.verifast.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BSDv1
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (1263.45-MHz 686-class CPU)
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6b1 Stepping = 1
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: real memory = 2147221504 (2096896K bytes)
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: avail memory = 2088062976 (2039124K bytes)
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #1
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 3, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: io0 (APIC): apic id: 4, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec00000
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: io1 (APIC): apic id: 5, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec01000
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0307000.
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: md0: Malloc disk
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: Using $PIR table, 13 entries at 0xc00f3bb0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pcib1: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 11 -> irq 2
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 10 -> irq 5
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: ahc0: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xfebe0000-0xfebe0fff irq 2 at device 7.0 on pci1
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: ahc1: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebf0fff irq 5 at device 7.1 on pci1
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pcib0: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 5 -> irq 7
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 4 -> irq 9
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 2 -> irq 10
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #0 intpin 10 -> irq 11
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0x1400-0x143f mem 0xfeaa0000-0xfeabffff,0xfeae0000-0xfeae0fff irq 7 at device 3.0 on pci0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: fxp0: Ethernet address 00:03:47:a4:ff:ba
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: fxp1: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0x1440-0x147f mem 0xfea60000-0xfea7ffff,0xfea80000-0xfea80fff irq 9 at device 4.0 on pci0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: fxp1: Ethernet address 00:03:47:a4:ff:bb
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: inphy1: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus1
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pci0: <ATI Mach64-GR graphics accelerator> at 12.0 irq 10
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: isab0: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=1166 device=0201)> at device 15.0 on pci0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: atapci0: <Generic PCI ATA controller> port 0x410-0x413,0x3a0-0x3af,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 at device 15.1 on pci0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pci0: <OHCI USB controller> at 15.2 irq 11
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pcib2: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pcib3: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib3
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pcib4: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pci4: <PCI bus> on pcib4
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc97ff,0xc9800-0xcafff,0xcb000-0xd0fff on isa0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: kbd0 at atkbd0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: sio0: type 16550A
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: sio1: type 16550A
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SN-124> at ata0-master using PIO4
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pass1 at ahc1 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pass1: <ESG-SHV SCA HSBP M18 0.06> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: pass1: 3.300MB/s transfers
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: da0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: da0: <SEAGATE ST336706LC 0108> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: da0: 35003MB (71687370 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4462C)

Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
Apr 16 07:19:51 bsd1 /usr/local/psa/named/sbin/named[238]: starting BIND 9.1.3 -c /etc/named.conf -u bind -t /usr/local/psa/named/run-root
Apr 16 07:19:52 bsd1 /usr/local/psa/named/sbin/named[238]: the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'
Apr 16 00:19:52 bsd1 /kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 202 to 200 packets per second
Apr 16 00:19:54 bsd1 /kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 201 to 200 packets per second
Apr 16 00:19:55 bsd1 /kernel: Limiting closed port RST response from 228 to 200 packets per second
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Copyright (c) 1992-2001 The FreeBSD Project.
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #2: Wed Apr 10 05:25:02 PDT 2002
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: root@bsd1.verifast.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/BSDv1
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (1263.45-MHz 686-class CPU)
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x6b1 Stepping = 1
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Features=0x383fbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE>
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: real memory = 2147221504 (2096896K bytes)
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: avail memory = 2088062976 (2039124K bytes)
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #0 intpin 2 -> irq 0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Programming 16 pins in IOAPIC #1
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor motherboard
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: cpu0 (BSP): apic id: 3, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: cpu1 (AP): apic id: 0, version: 0x00040011, at 0xfee00000
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: io0 (APIC): apic id: 4, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec00000
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: io1 (APIC): apic id: 5, version: 0x000f0011, at 0xfec01000
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc0307000.
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: md0: Malloc disk
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Using $PIR table, 13 entries at 0xc00f3bb0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pcib1: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 11 -> irq 2
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 10 -> irq 5
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib1
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: ahc0: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xfebe0000-0xfebe0fff irq 2 at device 7.0 on pci1
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: ahc1: <Adaptec aic7899 Ultra160 SCSI adapter> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xfebf0000-0xfebf0fff irq 5 at device 7.1 on pci1
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: aic7899: Ultra160 Wide Channel B, SCSI Id=7, 32/255 SCBs
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pcib0: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 5 -> irq 7
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 4 -> irq 9
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #1 intpin 2 -> irq 10
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: IOAPIC #0 intpin 10 -> irq 11
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0x1400-0x143f mem 0xfeaa0000-0xfeabffff,0xfeae0000-0xfeae0fff irq 7 at device 3.0 on pci0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: fxp0: Ethernet address 00:03:47:a4:ff:ba
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: fxp1: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0x1440-0x147f mem 0xfea60000-0xfea7ffff,0xfea80000-0xfea80fff irq 9 at device 4.0 on pci0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: fxp1: Ethernet address 00:03:47:a4:ff:bb
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: inphy1: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus1
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: inphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pci0: <ATI Mach64-GR graphics accelerator> at 12.0 irq 10
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: isab0: <PCI to ISA bridge (vendor=1166 device=0201)> at device 15.0 on pci0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: atapci0: <Generic PCI ATA controller> port 0x410-0x413,0x3a0-0x3af,0-0x3,0-0x7,0-0x3,0-0x7 at device 15.1 on pci0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pci0: <OHCI USB controller> at 15.2 irq 11
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pcib2: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pcib3: <ServerWorks host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pci3: <PCI bus> on pcib3
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pcib4: <Host to PCI bridge> on motherboard
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pci4: <PCI bus> on pcib4
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: orm0: <Option ROMs> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff,0xc8000-0xc97ff,0xc9800-0xcafff,0xcb000-0xd0fff on isa0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: fdc0: <NEC 72065B or clone> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> flags 0x1 irq 1 on atkbdc0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: kbd0 at atkbd0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: sio0: type 16550A
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: sio1: type 16550A
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: APIC_IO: Testing 8254 interrupt delivery
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: APIC_IO: Broken MP table detected: 8254 is not connected to IOAPIC #0 intpin 2
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: APIC_IO: routing 8254 via 8259 and IOAPIC #0 intpin 0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: acd0: CDROM <SAMSUNG CD-ROM SN-124> at ata0-master using PIO4
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pass1 at ahc1 bus 0 target 6 lun 0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pass1: <ESG-SHV SCA HSBP M18 0.06> Fixed Processor SCSI-2 device
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: pass1: 3.300MB/s transfers
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: da0 at ahc1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: da0: <SEAGATE ST336706LC 0108> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: da0: 160.000MB/s transfers (80.000MHz, offset 63, 16bit), Tagged Queueing Enabled
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: da0: 35003MB (71687370 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 4462C)
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
Apr 16 00:41:29 bsd1 /kernel: WARNING: / was not properly dismounted
Apr 16 07:41:31 bsd1 /usr/local/psa/named/sbin/named[238]: starting BIND 9.1.3 -c /etc/named.conf -u bind -t /usr/local/psa/named/run-root
Apr 16 07:41:32 bsd1 /usr/local/psa/named/sbin/named[238]: the default for the 'auth-nxdomain' option is now 'no'

Hmm, I have to admit that there doesn't seem to be anything in there.

You don't happen to have another (identical) server standing by which you could copy everything over to, do you? It would be nice to be certain that it wasn't a hardware fault.

Apart from that... I'd suggest trying the system with only one processor enabled, but with such a high traffic volume the system I'm not sure if it could handle the load.

Is there anything in /var/log/messages before

Apr 16 00:19:49 bsd1 /kernel: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #2: Wed Apr 10 05:25:02 PDT 2002

and after the previous bootup section? Maybe compressing the log file and either posting it or mailing it to one of us would be helpful.

To compress:

tar -zcvf /tmp/messages.log.tgz /var/log/messages

Find the file in the /tmp directory.