From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 18 17:56:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDFBD15263 for ; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:56:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA58737; Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:56:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:56:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: Ladavac Marino , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Desperate to shrink a partition In-Reply-To: <10772.929618615@monkeys.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > The system is running FreeBSD 2.2.8. Under heavy load it now crashes > and reboots itself on a regular basis... every few hours, at random. > > I get *no messages* in /var/log/messages saying what happened. Maybe some > message would appear on the console, *if* this system had a console monitor, > but it doesn't, so that's that. Have you replaced your RAM or processor cache? How about case and hard disk temperature? Sudden reboots are *rarely* software caused under FreeBSD. The kernel keeps tabs on itself and will panic() accordingly, allowing you to get a dump. If it reboots abruptly, most likely you have flakey/failing hardware. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message