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From:      "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org>
To:        Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
Cc:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@ucb.crimea.ua>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange reboot saga
Message-ID:  <3736AFE4.404A8C03@vangelderen.org>
References:  <199905092105.OAA33676@cwsys.cwsent.com>

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Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
[...]
> You know the strange thing about these freezes is that they don't occur
> on every system.  For example, I manage four 3.1R systems and a 2.2.8R
> system.  Three of the 3.1 systems are rock solid.  The fourth one,
> which also happens to have the fastest clock speed (333MHz PII in a
> Dell), has frozen four times since February while I was running
> tripwire 1.3 with -interactive, during phase 4 file checks, and
> starting netscape, and restoring exmh2 from an icon.  The system is
> doing A LOT of paging at the time of the hangs.  PR 8416 might hold
> some promise of fixing this.

I had the same problem on two of my systems (PII 300 and 450). In both
cases the culprit was an overheated CPU, even though all the fans were
running smoothly. Try running without the cover and/or measuring the
temperature of your CPU.

Cheers,
Jeroen
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Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen@vangelderen.org - 0xC33EDFDE


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