From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 22 20:23:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0F6237B401 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:23:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.mailix.net (smtp.mailix.net [216.148.213.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896F543E65 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:23:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tapeworm@insekta.org) Received: from [12.246.29.145] (helo=cenobite.insekta.org) by smtp.mailix.net with asmtp (Exim 4.01) id 184C7Q-0005fi-00; Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:23:40 -0700 Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:22:46 -0700 From: erk! To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: richardh@wsonline.net Subject: Re: random reboots Message-Id: <20021022202246.60c8c529.tapeworm@insekta.org> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20021021230547.00a75998@mail.storm2k.wsonline.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20021021230547.00a75998@mail.storm2k.wsonline.net> Organization: sector blue X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.7) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i've actually had this problem also..however, it turned out to be a BIOS issue. i don't recall the specific setting name that i had to change, but there should be some kind of performance toggle or speed toggle between "normal" and "turbo". switching it back to "normal" stopped the spontaneous reboots for me. dunno if this will help you in any way, but it's as much a possibility as anything, i suppose. - erik On Mon, 21 Oct 2002 23:19:15 -0600 RichardH wrote: > We are experiencing random reboots on 4.7. Have seen other postings in > here regarding this issue so it does not appear to be hardware related > but have not seen a definitive answer to what is going on. No core > dumps, etc. Please respond if you are having same problem. We are > doing 4.7 on a "test" server running AMD 400 CPU and would like to > goto 4.7 on production servers but with random reboots this is not > feasible. As I said this has come up on "questions" before but still > has not been fully addressed. Running newest Apache, MySQL, PHP, Perl, > just can't up to 4.7 yet (was rebooting before any of the previous > were upped,Apache, etc.) 4.6 was totally stable . Rebooting probs > started after upping to 4.7 FBSD and are totally random. Thanks for > any input. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message