From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 21 0:30: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mailbox.reptiles.org (mailbox.reptiles.org [198.96.117.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904D037B720 for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 00:30:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jim@reptiles.org) Received: from localhost (1832 bytes) by mailbox.reptiles.org via sendmail with P:stdio/R:bind_hosts/T:inet_zone_bind_smtp (sender: ) (ident using unix) id for ; Tue, 21 Mar 2000 03:29:56 -0500 (EST) (Smail-3.2.0.108 1999-Sep-19 #3 built 1999-Oct-27) Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 03:29:55 -0500 From: Jim Mercer To: Nadav Eiron Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable Message-ID: <20000321032955.U15100@reptiles.org> References: <20000321030738.T15100@reptiles.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from nadav@cs.Technion.AC.IL on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 10:14:47AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- [ 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. ] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message