From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 23 6:34:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BC9F14C87 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 06:34:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id OAA66051; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:34:04 GMT Message-ID: <36F7A65C.B438E07A@tdx.co.uk> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 14:34:04 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway wrote: > > For about the past week I've been getting spontaneous reboots on my machine. > As far as I can tell, there's no obvious common connection - most recently my > box was under load at the time, but the time before that all I did was move > the mouse (shades of Windows :-) and nothing else much was running. > > This does only seem to happen when I'm using the machine - after a few hours, > a reboot is pretty much guaranteed (sounds like a resource leak of some kind > to me). Beyond that, I don't know. My kernel and machine config haven't > changed recently. > > Has anyone else been seeing this? What kind of information would help to > narrow the problem down? The sort of thing we're looking for is, Which version of FreeBSD (I'd assume something -current because you posted to the -current mailing list, but how current?), what hardware (i.e. CPU type [Intel/AMD/Cyrix]) etc. - how much memory, what types of hard drive (SCSI vs. IDE) etc. - if you have any 'weird' hardware in there? Also, you say "when I moved the mouse" - does that mean your machine lives in X-Windows all the time? - Does it crash when it's not running X etc? What type of video card does your machine have? The more detail you can provide (without going too OTT :-) - The more likely someone will be able to help :-) I have two boxes here tracking 4.0-current, and so far (looking for a nice piece of wood to touch), I've not seen any reboots on either for quite a long time (i.e>months) :) -Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message