On Tue, 23 Mar 1999, Karl Pielorz wrote:
> Kris Kennaway wrote:
> >
> > For about the past week I've been getting spontaneous reboots on my machine.
> > As far as I can tell, there's no obvious common connection - most recently
> > my
> > box was under load at the time, but the time before that all I did was move
> > the mouse (shades of Windows :-) and nothing else much was running.
> >
> > This does only seem to happen when I'm using the machine - after a few
> > hours,
> > a reboot is pretty much guaranteed (sounds like a resource leak of some kind
> > to me). Beyond that, I don't know. My kernel and machine config haven't
> > changed recently.
> >
> > Has anyone else been seeing this? What kind of information would help to
> > narrow the problem down?
>
> The sort of thing we're looking for is, Which version of FreeBSD (I'd assume
> something -current because you posted to the -current mailing list, but how
> current?), what hardware (i.e. CPU type [Intel/AMD/Cyrix]) etc. - how much
> memory, what types of hard drive (SCSI vs. IDE) etc. - if you have any 'weird'
> hardware in there?
>
> Also, you say "when I moved the mouse" - does that mean your machine lives in
> X-Windows all the time? - Does it crash when it's not running X etc? What type
> of video card does your machine have?
>
> The more detail you can provide (without going too OTT :-) - The more likely
> someone will be able to help :-) I have two boxes here tracking 4.0-current,
> and so far (looking for a nice piece of wood to touch), I've not seen any
> reboots on either for quite a long time (i.e>months) :)
>
> -Karl
>
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He should proviide a full dmesg from bootverbose mode. One thing I've seen is
that K6-2's in write allocated mode have big problems.
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