From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 11:26:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0388837B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:26:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from bjwcs.com (swing.bjwcs.com [208.185.25.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D032443F93 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 11:26:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brently@bjwcs.com) Received: from samba [68.98.15.6] by bjwcs.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.07) id AD7233500EC; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:26:42 -0500 From: "Brent Wiese" To: Subject: RE: Freebsd - restarting itself - followup Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 12:26:42 -0700 Message-ID: <00f601c2f304$77c122c0$0a0114ac@home.bjwcs.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.4510 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <002b01c2f24b$411269f0$0200a8c0@bartxp> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.5 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Right now I have the exact same thing happening to one machine. It is > located offsite (naturally) and about 10 days ago it had a random > shutdown (did not come back up) followed by a random reboot a couple > days later. It had been running 50-60 days previous. The shutdown > occurred just after business hours, the reboot at about 4am. =20 > I now have > the machine emailing me at specific intervals to try to narrow things > down. >=20 > I have a couple ideas for the both of us. One is that maybe=20 > the machine > is plugged into a faulty power line, something that is borking the > current enough to cause reboots. Another is that maybe the=20 > PSU is dying > prematurely (3mos old for me). >=20 > I wish us both good luck. >=20 > -Derrick Almost certainly heat related. Even really good cpu/ps fans in a clean environment will only last a year or so running 24/7. Most just weren't built with this kind of use in mind. I made a habit of checking fans = yearly and replacing as needed. However, I've never had box shutdown, only reboot. Did it really shut = down, or was it maybe hung on boot wanting a manual fsck or something? If it actually shutdown, and you're not connected to a ups running a shutdown daemon, I would suspect someone did it accidentally or intentionally... Maybe something like "kill 1"? :) I was also never a power supply snob in the past, but I can honestly say = now that I will not buy generic p/s anymore. I went thru 2 generic p/s on my home machine before buying the nice $100 antec... I haven't had any = problems since... No lockups/reboots/etc. It definitely turned my thinking = around. Brent To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message