Date: 09 Jul 2000 18:06:04 -0400 From: Arcady Genkin <antipode@thpoon.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatic reboot out of the blue. Message-ID: <87hf9z2c37.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> In-Reply-To: John Baldwin's message of "Sun, 09 Jul 2000 14:46:17 -0700 (PDT)" References: <200007092146.OAA00558@john.baldwin.cx>
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> writes: > Your kernel could have paniced, and the default behavior is to reboot > when that happens. So there would not even be a log message in this case? > If you want, you can check the handbook section > on kernel debugging to see how to compile a kernel with debug symbols > (config -g) and to setup a dump device via dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf. > Then, when your computer boots up after a panic, it will save a copy > of the kernel and a memory dump to /var/crash/kernel.0 and > /var/crash/vmcore.0. You can then use the kernel debugger as root > to get some simple info and send an e-mail with it to -hackers. How much will this impair the performance? That box is barely enough for what it's doing already (memory--wise). -- Arcady Genkin Thanks God I'm still an atheist! -- Luis Bunuel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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