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Date:      Wed, 8 Mar 2017 10:53:02 -0500
From:      Jan Knepper <jan@digitaldaemon.com>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@immure.com>, hackers list <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Help with silent reboot of 10.3-stable system
Message-ID:  <86b89c6c-9a00-1033-4181-a7e0da2ed66f@digitaldaemon.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170308015630.GE22199@rancor.immure.com>
References:  <20170308015630.GE22199@rancor.immure.com>

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Is your system swapping to disk? Heavily?

Might want to check the swap space on disk.

I had spontaneous reboots some years ago because of bad swap space on 
disk. (Got a new disk, 'dd'-ed the old disk to the new disk, reboot on 
the new disk and everything was fine)

Jan



On 03/07/2017 20:56, Bob Willcox wrote:
> Over the past month or so my network fileserver system (NFS support for my
> entire, small, network) has begun silently rebooting itself. Here is the uname
> -a output:
>
> FreeBSD vader.immure.com 10.3-STABLE FreeBSD 10.3-STABLE #15 r313997: Mon Feb 20 14:40:00 CST 2017     bob@vader.immure.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
> At first I suspected that it might be the power supply as it was a couple of
> years old so I replaced that. Unfortunately, it has begun doing it again (had
> a couple of weeks respite) so now my suspicions seem to have been incorrect.
>
> I was hoping that someone might be able to give me some clues on what I can do
> to reveal the problem. Are there any general debug settings for the kernel (or
> elsewhere) that would maybe give an indication of why it is being rebooted
> (assuming it's a software problem)?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions you may have!
>
> Bob
>




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