[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Hipster becomes unreachable over network after a certain length of uptime

[Judah Richardson]

On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 8:37 PM Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:

> On 21/12/2021 12:47 pm, Judah Richardson wrote:
> > I've been having an odd problem over the past few months in which my OI
> > Hipster installation becomes unreachable over the network after a certain
> > length of uptime. I haven't been able to determine exactly what this
> length
> > is, but I usually become aware of it when restic jobs that use that
> machine
> > as a repo start failing.
>
> What version of OI?
>
$ uname -a
SunOS DellOptiPlex390MT 5.11 illumos-8779b44894 i86pc i386 i86pc illumos

Hipster 2021.10

> I have an old one that drops off the net after a while, running :
>
> SunOS hostie 5.11 illumos-5d539a8 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
>
> That's from :
> oi151a8-dev          NR     /          18.1G static 2013-08-12 22:58
>
> It seemed to be related to traffic, some counter somewhere overflowing -
> since I took a bunch of Virtualbox VM's off it, it's been a lot more
> connectable. Now it's just a LAN fileserver. It's gone from losing
> network once every week or two, to, I can't remember when it last lost
> network.
>
Hmmm sounds like a semi-known issue, then?

>
> Haven't had any problems with newer OI's. As a workaround, I had a
> script that rebooted it when it couldn't get a ping response.  Not
> ideal, but it worked!
>
>
> Carl
>
>
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