Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:45:07 +1100 From: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> To: jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au> Cc: FreeBSD Qusetions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What makes my FreeBSD 3.3 RELEASE machine crash? Message-ID: <387955C3.C01E36C5@S1.com> References: <v0420550eb49efcd31c66@[1.1.1.3]>
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Hullo there, > > What are the most common causes of a FreeBSD machine to crash? (When > I say "crash", I mean reboot for no apparent reason). > <snip> > > Until recently it had Red Hat LInux 5.1 on it, which crashed quite > regularly too, but people tell me this was a very buggy version of > linux so I wasn't to suprised. However, I am very suprised that in > the first month of FreeBSD 3.3 Release being on the box it has > crashed twice. > I would be wary here. You tell us the machine has crashed with fBSD, and ask "why?". You then tell us that under L-RH5 it also 'crashed quite regularly', and then again with fBSD3.3 'it has crashed twice'. If it were me, I would be checking that there isn't a hardware fault before chasing software "faults". My first suspect would be memory. Can I suggest you power down the machine, remove all boards (including memory SIMMs), give the contacts a clean, and reinsert everything? Then see what happens. Another possible cause of errors; have you played with the jumpers for the CPU speed - i.e. are you trying to overclock the beast, or have you put a new (different) CPU in it, or perhaps the core voltage is set incorrectly? Just some ideas to toss around and think about. But, as I said, I'd be thinking "hardware fault" at this stage. hth, haxxa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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