Re: netbsd random reboot

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <CAMJXocmTJMweKGyf=xzh_-Wr+Do+rpmvdoeAr3EygD5UcvJ0sA%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
el kalin  <kalin%el.net@localhost> wrote:
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>hi all...
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>i have a netbsd 6 on ec2 (aws - amazon web services) like:
>NetBSD  6.0 NetBSD 6.0 (XEN3_DOMU) amd64
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>every now and then - usually early morning between 3 and 4 am - the machine
>reboots itself and there is no other indication why except the below long
>string of garbage in the email logâ?¦
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>my guess is that for whatever reason part of the actual incoming message is
>somehow intended to be written to the log file. i did try to look at the
>base64 encoded string after all the ^@s but it's not text.
>
>the machine uses default postfix setup and the mail is routed trough
>procmail for certain addresses.
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>this used to happened more often before i made the ec2 instance bigger. now
>it's m1.large and apparently it's still happening from time to time. before
>i made it bigger the log wasn't containing any base64 string. i remember
>seeng the ^@s but not the string...
>
>any ideas of what that might be?!

Do you have DDB in your kernel? Is there anything in the messages file?
Can you run vmstat 1 in a window, and see what happens?

christos