Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:56:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com> Cc: Ladavac Marino <mladavac@metropolitan.at>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desperate to shrink a partition Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9906181754540.34137-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <10772.929618615@monkeys.com>
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On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > The system is running FreeBSD 2.2.8. Under heavy load it now crashes > and reboots itself on a regular basis... every few hours, at random. > > I get *no messages* in /var/log/messages saying what happened. Maybe some > message would appear on the console, *if* this system had a console monitor, > but it doesn't, so that's that. Have you replaced your RAM or processor cache? How about case and hard disk temperature? Sudden reboots are *rarely* software caused under FreeBSD. The kernel keeps tabs on itself and will panic() accordingly, allowing you to get a dump. If it reboots abruptly, most likely you have flakey/failing hardware. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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