Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 09:52:57 -0800 From: "Arthur M. Kang" <arthur@levelogic.com> To: Jim Mercer <jim@reptiles.org> Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Pawe=B3?= Dubin <paweld@suimed.tpnet.pl>, hackers@freebsd.org, pgsql-general@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: spontaneous reboots FreeBSD 3.x and 4.0-stable Message-ID: <38D7B6F9.55CA61DD@levelogic.com> References: <m12XJKt-00000NC@mailbox.reptiles.org> <00032112150500.00666@paweld> <20000321064428.W15100@reptiles.org>
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Had this rebooting problem before for a while and it drove me NUTZ! Inst=
alled RedHat
and FreeBSD and both rebooted periodically. Don't know if my solution wi=
ll help or not,
but what was causing my reboots was the system BIOS. The options for Pow=
er Management
in the system BIOS should have some settings for the monitor as well as t=
he hard drive.
I was finding that the spinning down of the hard drive caused the machine=
to reboot. No
traces in any error logs or anything...
Hope that helps somebody...somewhere... :)
Arthur
Jim Mercer wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 12:06:05PM +0100, Pawe=B3 Dubin wrote:
> > > the first system runs 3.4-stable and gets spontaneous reboots infre=
quently,
> > > and there are no messages (dmesg, console or syslog) indicating why=
it rebooted.
> > > the new system runs 4.0-stable, doesn't have vinum, and is spontane=
ously
> > > rebooting (several times in 48 hrs). again no messages indicting t=
he problem.
> >
> > We have similar problem (the same configuration but RH 5.1) (I dont k=
now what
> > is vinum). It is probably from scsi board when we have 4 devices it r=
eboots
> > every 3 days. now with 2 devices every 2 weeks.
> >
> > It is probably caused by intel -> driver -> scsi cooperation, because=
on K6
> > system works ok. Maybe newer kernel with recognized pentium bugs.
>
> i wonder, it might actually be heat.
>
> in the first system, it was originally housed in an IBM PC 325 cabinet =
and
> rebooted quite frequently, then it was moved to a 48VDC rackmount chass=
is,
> with somewhat better airflow, and it rebooted less frequently.
>
> the new server is a rackmount case, but it doesn't have much in the way=
of
> extra fans.
>
> is it possible the reboots we are seeing are due to some component over=
heating?
>
> > Sorry for my english
>
> your english is fine.
>
> --
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