El 13/10/13 16:57, Bastian Bittorf escribió: >>> the board is ok, no need for replacing it. we have several 1000 >>> boards, >>> and we see that everyday some of them are hanging in this situation >>> (right after nightly reboot). statistically that means: >>> >>> if you reboot a board ever night, than it will 'hang' once a year. >>> also read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_error >>> and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-event_upset >>> >> Hm. In this case, it matters. From your first message, I realized that >> the same board constantly can not boot. And in such situation, would >> be nice add capability of reboot to the mainstream loader. >> >> Allow me to ask, why do you reboot the equipment every night? > > the only reason is 'cleanup' and fallback to normal operation if > something very stupid happens. we deciced to use this "russian method", > after realizing, that there is always one error more we did'nt catch. > > we use a 'maintenance window' at ~4 o'clock to do that. it has > more advantages, than disadvantages...
we came to the same conclusion and reboot every day at 5AM. There are only 40 nodes but we never saw the symptom you described yet; maybe it's just statistic luck :P _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
