From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 23 7:25:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (mail0.atl.bellsouth.net [205.152.0.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA4691530B for ; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 07:25:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wghicks@bellsouth.net) Received: from wghicks.bellsouth.net (host-209-214-70-39.atl.bellsouth.net [209.214.70.39]) by mail0.atl.bellsouth.net (8.8.8-spamdog/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA28906; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:24:46 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (wghicks@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by wghicks.bellsouth.net (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA06882; Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:24:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net) To: kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:32:28 +0930 (CST)" References: X-Mailer: Mew version 1.93 on XEmacs 20.4 (Emerald) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990323102417X.wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 10:24:17 -0500 From: W Gerald Hicks X-Dispatcher: imput version 980905(IM100) Lines: 39 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds like a NMI generated by memory parity errors or motherboard malfunction. Good Luck, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net From: Kris Kennaway Subject: Spontaneous reboots Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:32:28 +0930 (CST) > 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? > > Kris > > ----- > The Feynman problem-solving algorithm: 1. Write down the problem > 2. Think real hard > 3. Write down the solution > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message