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Date:      Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:19:23 +0100
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Spontaneous reboots
Message-ID:  <36C1794B.F14AF78@scc.nl>
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902091829050.73300-100000@destiny.erols.com>, <Pine.BSF.4.05.9902100906040.1374-100000@gold.amis.net>

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Blaz Zupan wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, John Dowdal wrote:
> > Do you have DDB enabled?  YOur spontaneous reboots might be panics with
> > the messages hidden "behind" xwindows so you never see them.  If you turn
> > on DDB, it will crash to the debugger instead of just reboot.
> 
> I did not have it enabled earlier, but I do have it enabled now (still
> waiting for a crash after removing bpfilter). And I don't believe there
> was any messages, because the reboot was so quick, that even if I would
> not run X, I could not see any message (the reboots appear almost as if
> someone would press the reset button, i.e. in one moment I'm typing
> something and in the middle of me typing something the messages BIOS
> greeting messages appear).

Just a thought:

Petri Helenius (pete@sms.fi) posted his dmesg last tuesday. I noticed it had
the following lines:

de0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen
lo0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen

I have never seen this on my systems, although I'm using both drivers. I do
not suffer any reboots. Given the name of the parameter (ifq_maxlen) I can
imagine that it could cause problems when there is any network load. Maybe in
relation with bpfilter...

Anyway; I don't know if it is related (probably not), but I thought it would
be good to draw attention to it.

marcel

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