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Date:      Sun, 3 Oct 1999 22:21:37 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Andreas Berg <andy@flame.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange reboots
Message-ID:  <19991003222136.A64106@florence.pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991003222616.00c31670@atlantis.fukt.hk-r.se>
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On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:29:10PM +0200, Andreas Berg wrote:
> Thanks for everyones suggestions. I assume that noone knew of a OS problem 
> or a problem with one of the programs I run. I'm quite sure that I dont 
> have a CPU or memory problem since the box is really stable when its 
> actually working (This is what most poeple resonding suggested). I'm 
> leaning towards a possible failing power supply, I really can't see that it 
> could be something else causing this.
> 
> Once again, thanks for your help.
> 
> -Andy

None of the programs you mentioned would cause the machine to
reboot.  In fact it is very rare that a a piece of software causes
a system to reboot at all.  We usually have 2 or 3 unscheduled
reboots a year across 15 or so FreeBSD boxes.  Most are due to
hardware issues (dead harddrives, etc).

Joe

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