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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 03:29:55 -0500
From:      Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org>
To:        Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable
Message-ID:  <20000321032955.U15100@reptiles.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.1000321100839.21469A-100000@csd>; from nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:14:47AM %2B0200
References:  <20000321030738.T15100@reptiles.org> <Pine.GSO.3.95-heb-2.07.1000321100839.21469A-100000@csd>

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On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:14:47AM +0200, Nadav Eiron wrote:
> > 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. 

so, how does one do this?

/etc/rc.conf: 
dumpdev="/dev/da0s2b"  # this is the swap partition

yes?

> > > 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) :-)

well, fingers crossed, i'll give it a whirl.

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