From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Oct 3 14:21:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [194.242.128.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D192814C28 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@florence.pavilion.net) Received: (from joe@localhost) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) id WAA64911; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 22:21:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe) Date: Sun, 3 Oct 1999 22:21:37 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Andreas Berg Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange reboots Message-ID: <19991003222136.A64106@florence.pavilion.net> References: <4.2.0.58.19991003013420.00a73e70@atlantis.fukt.hk-r.se> <4.2.0.58.19991003222616.00c31670@atlantis.fukt.hk-r.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.19991003222616.00c31670@atlantis.fukt.hk-r.se> X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, 24 The Old Steine, Brighton, BN1 1EL, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 10:29:10PM +0200, Andreas Berg wrote: > Thanks for everyones suggestions. I assume that noone knew of a OS problem > or a problem with one of the programs I run. I'm quite sure that I dont > have a CPU or memory problem since the box is really stable when its > actually working (This is what most poeple resonding suggested). I'm > leaning towards a possible failing power supply, I really can't see that it > could be something else causing this. > > Once again, thanks for your help. > > -Andy None of the programs you mentioned would cause the machine to reboot. In fact it is very rare that a a piece of software causes a system to reboot at all. We usually have 2 or 3 unscheduled reboots a year across 15 or so FreeBSD boxes. Most are due to hardware issues (dead harddrives, etc). Joe -- Josef Karthauser FreeBSD: How many times have you booted today? Technical Manager Viagra for your server (http://www.uk.freebsd.org) Pavilion Internet plc. [joe@pavilion.net, joe@uk.freebsd.org, joe@tao.org.uk] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message