From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 9 15: 6:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from soup.thpoon.com (cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com [24.114.152.71]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CDEDE37B5E0 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2000 15:06:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from antipode@thpoon.com) Received: (qmail 1909 invoked from network); 9 Jul 2000 22:06:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO tea.thpoon.com) (mail@192.168.1.2) by cr103675-a.bloor1.on.wave.home.com with SMTP; 9 Jul 2000 22:06:09 -0000 Received: from antipode by tea.thpoon.com with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 13BPDA-00083r-00 for ; Sun, 09 Jul 2000 18:06:04 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Automatic reboot out of the blue. References: <200007092146.OAA00558@john.baldwin.cx> From: Arcady Genkin X-Face: 0=A/O5-+sE[Tf%X>rYr?Y5LD4,:^'jaJ!4jC&UR*ZrrK2>^`g22Qeb]!:d;}2YJ|Hq"LHdF OX`jWX|AT-WVFQ(TPhFVak)0nt$aEdlOq=1~D,:\z5QlVOrZ2(H,mKg=Xr|'VlHA="r Organization: thpoon.com Mail-Copies-To: never Date: 09 Jul 2000 18:06:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: John Baldwin's message of "Sun, 09 Jul 2000 14:46:17 -0700 (PDT)" Message-ID: <87hf9z2c37.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> Lines: 20 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Capitol Reef) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John Baldwin writes: > Your kernel could have paniced, and the default behavior is to reboot > when that happens. So there would not even be a log message in this case? > If you want, you can check the handbook section > on kernel debugging to see how to compile a kernel with debug symbols > (config -g) and to setup a dump device via dumpdev in /etc/rc.conf. > Then, when your computer boots up after a panic, it will save a copy > of the kernel and a memory dump to /var/crash/kernel.0 and > /var/crash/vmcore.0. You can then use the kernel debugger as root > to get some simple info and send an e-mail with it to -hackers. How much will this impair the performance? That box is barely enough for what it's doing already (memory--wise). -- Arcady Genkin Thanks God I'm still an atheist! -- Luis Bunuel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message