Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 14:56:57 +1100 From: jesse reynolds <jesse@va.com.au> To: Harry Woodward-Clarke <Harry.Woodward-Clarke@S1.com> Cc: FreeBSD Qusetions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: What makes my FreeBSD 3.3 RELEASE machine crash? Message-ID: <v04205515b49f06866420@[1.1.1.3]> In-Reply-To: <387955C3.C01E36C5@S1.com> References: <v0420550eb49efcd31c66@[1.1.1.3]> <387955C3.C01E36C5@S1.com>
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At 2:45 PM +1100 10/01/2000, Harry Woodward-Clarke wrote:
>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.
I did say my instinct tells me it's a hardware problem.
>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?
Right, I will try cleaning all the contacts etc when I'm in the same
city as the machine :-), in the mean time I'll move all the services
onto something else. I haven't overclocked anything or played with
jumpers at all, no. It is the original intel 75mhz processor still in
it.
>Just some ideas to toss around and think about. But, as I said, I'd be
>thinking "hardware fault" at this stage.
Yep, good. I really wanted some backup to my intuition here, so this is good.
Thanks
-jesse
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