From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 21 0:14:45 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from cs.Technion.AC.IL (csa.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1449037BC0A for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:14:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nadav@cs.technion.ac.il) Received: from csd.cs.technion.ac.il (csd.cs.technion.ac.il [132.68.32.8]) by cs.Technion.AC.IL (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA26253; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:14:48 +0200 (IST) Received: from localhost (nadav@localhost) by csd.cs.technion.ac.il (8.9.3/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA16250; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:14:47 +0200 (IST) X-Authentication-Warning: csd.cs.technion.ac.il: nadav owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:14:47 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron X-Sender: nadav@csd To: Jim Mercer Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable In-Reply-To: <20000321030738.T15100@reptiles.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 21 Mar 2000, Jim Mercer wrote: > both my machines have more than adequate RAM (384 Meg and 512 Meg). > > one runs vinum, theother doesn't. (in fact the one running vinum reboots > less frequently than the one without vinum). > > > Naturaly, it all stoppoed > > once I added dumping to the config to debug it ;-) > > i considered adding this, but even with the reboots, i need the systems in > production, and i suspect that adding the debug stuff would cause the system > to wait for manual intervention. I didn't add kernel debugger, just kernel dumps. All the time it takes on a reboot is the time your disks take to copy RAM to swapspace. Even with your RAM size it should be less than a minute. [snip] > > > Anyway, > > I haven't seen any of these reboots for about 3 weeks now, but would sure > > like to get to the bottom of this, if I can. > > so, adding debug to the kernel "fixed" it? The kernel is unchanged, so there's nothing that could really fix the problem. It did go away though (at least for now) :-) > > -- > [ Jim Mercer jim@reptiles.org +1 416 506-0654 ] > [ Reptilian Research -- Longer Life through Colder Blood ] > [ Don't be fooled by cheap Finnish imitations; BSD is the One True Code. ] > Nadav To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message