From owner-freebsd-stable Mon May 10 3: 7:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl (schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl [130.89.238.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0722E14DEA for ; Mon, 10 May 1999 03:07:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeroen@vangelderen.org) Received: from wit395301.student.utwente.nl ([130.89.235.121]:52484 "EHLO vangelderen.org" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl with ESMTP id <8177-10583>; Mon, 10 May 1999 12:07:21 +0200 Message-ID: <3736AFE4.404A8C03@vangelderen.org> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:07:32 +0200 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group Cc: Ruslan Ermilov , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange reboot saga References: <199905092105.OAA33676@cwsys.cwsent.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen - jeroen@vangelderen.org - 0xC33EDFDE To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message