From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 25 10:44:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vdsi.net (vdsi.net [206.67.5.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E1D537B405 for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 10:44:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rseals@vdsi.net) Received: from localhost (rseals@localhost) by vdsi.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id MAA93319; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:44:19 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from rseals@vdsi.net) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:44:18 -0500 (CDT) From: "rseals@vdsi.net" To: Jim Arnold Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots: how common in general? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII 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 have only had this problem with bad memory. Ray On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, Jim Arnold wrote: > I have been working with FreeBSD now (4.3 Stable and Release) for the past few > months on several different boxes. Before that I was running Slackware Linux > for about a year and and half. > > On three of four different occasions I have had my FreeBSD boxes spontaneously > reboot. Once it was due to an NFS situation (from what I could guess) > and two or three other times > it was due to me trying to mount a cdrom that shouldn't be mounted or > a cdrom that had a bad file on it > that didn't want to be copied to the hard drive. > > How common, in general, are spontaneous reboots in the FreeBSD world? > I never once > had my Linux box just give up like FreeBSD seems willing to do. From > what I have read > softupdates adds a layer of protection again system corruption in > these situations. > > I guess my expectations coming to FreeBSD from Slackware were pretty > high so I am somewhat > surprised this has happened as often as it has. Other than that, my > experience with FreeBSD has > been great. It's head and shoulders above Linux in everything else. > > Can anyone give some insights or perspective on this? Is this FreeBSD > glass jaw? How serious > or potentially damaging are these kinds of spontaneous reboots and > why does FreeBSD seem more > prone to these than Linux. Even if I did something stupid I didn't > expect FreeBSD to just take its > toys, reboot and go home. > > Just wondering what other's experiences are. > > Thanks, > Jim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message