Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 10:14:47 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL> To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.1000321100839.21469A-100000@csd> In-Reply-To: <20000321030738.T15100@reptiles.org>
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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
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