From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 4 19:59:12 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 E1C5737B401 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:59:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from srv.flncs.com (srv.flncs.com [12.27.148.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D31C43F3F for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 19:59:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from moti@flncs.com) Received: from xp (cable [12.164.45.65]) by srv.flncs.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 26EDF4BD06 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2003 23:16:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000b01c2e2cb$92d53540$c901a8c0@xp> From: "Moti Levy" To: References: <200303041302.h24D2erk009815@himinbjorg.ttsg.com> <20030304233008.40599.qmail@web20109.mail.yahoo.com> <20030305025521.GA94920@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20030305033342.GB3922@raggedclown.net> Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 22:59:06 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 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 so you have a 3com nic in that thing ? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Sarginson" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 10:33 PM Subject: Re: still can't resolve these system reboots... help please > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 06:55:21PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:30:08PM -0800, Bsd Neophyte wrote: > > > Think you have been given just about all the advice to give. > It is a bunner, and expensive to solve if you replace bits. > > I will give two suggestions. > Is the power supply to your firm/house whatever "clean" ? > Computers don't like dirty power, that is power prone to what I think > experts call grey-outs. They don't like spikes either, momentary > increases in voltage. Do you live in an area prone to thunderstorms? > > You can get devices to protect against somne of these things. > > My second suggestion is going to sound really weird. > My FreeBSD system disappears into the boonies when I have a screen saver > enabled. That is xscreevsaver. Given enough time, and enough core dumps. > it crashes my system as sure as eggs is eggs. I kind of proved this by > leaving the systen running for days with and without screen saver. > It boonied with the screen saver, it did not wihout. > > A few questons. Power supply ? Do you have SCSI disks ? They eat > electricity like it is going out of fashion. > > Heat, is the server overheating ? > If you have a modern BIOS it can tell you what the temperature is. > You need to watch what the CPU temp is, because the reaction to over > heating is reboot. > > Good luck. > > > -- > > Regards > Cliff > > [ This mail has been checked as virus-free ] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message