I've had my unRAID server running for several months, probably since last September or so, with nary a problem. I'm now running the stable 4.5 release.

 

I was watching some video on my HTPC (running MediaPortal 1.1.0 svn 24669 on Windows 7 Pro N if you're wondering) and the media froze after watching for about 5 or 10 minutes. After 20 seconds more or so it became a little more responsive. I scrubbed backward, then reached the same spot and it again froze up. I quit MediaPortal, and saw that my tower was no longer connectible. I tried to telnet from another PC, no dice there, so I plugged in a monitor and I saw a lot of stuff that certainly didn't look normal. I couldn't type anything directly to the terminal with a newly plugged in ps2 keyboard (not sure if this was because unRAID was frozen or ps2 keyboards aren't hot-pluggable).

 

I snapped a photo of what unRAID spit out, since I couldn't save a log, and I'm curious if this looks familiar to any of you linux veterans. It doesn't seem to have affected anything, but I'm hoping I'm not running into some long-term stability problem. The only other symptom I can think of was one I initially assigned to a new beta installation of my HTPC software, but I had some similar media freezing going on sporadically at the beginning of a movie, but it would recover, and obviously not bring my tower down. These all happened within the first 30 seconds or so of the file, while this latest crash took a bit longer to come about.

 

I've also attached a log from when I booted up again after the subsequent dirty powerdown. Parity was checked automatically, and passed with no errors.

 

Specs are as follows:

Supermicro X7SLA-H-B Atom 330/ Intel 945GC/ RAID/ V&2GbE/ Flex ATX Motherboard

4GB DDR800 Memory

 

Parity: 2TB Seagate

Disk1: 2TB Seagate

Disk2: 1.5TB Seagate

Disk3: 1TB WD

 

unRAID Pro on a 1GB Sandisk microcruzer thumb

 

Thanks for taking time to read and help.

syslog-2010-02-04.txt

Since it appears as if it was trying to swap out a thread to make room, is it possible you ran out of free memory?

 

Are you running any add-on processes or packages?  (Even if you are not, it is certainly possibly to have a memory "leak" in something in unRAID, perhaps in the new version of SAMBA in 4.5 unRAID)

 

 

I run cache_dirs and unMENU, and I have these packages installed:

 

apcupsd 3.14.3

bwm-ng 0.6

ntfs-3g 1.5130

Clean Powerdown 1.02

rsync 3.0.4

 

I haven't really used rsync or ntfs-3g for anything though.

 

I'd agree with the running out of free memory theory, that's what it felt like. I'll monitor and report if anything else happens.