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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



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