From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 23 14:19:09 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24984 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:19:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24979 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:19:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA24221; Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:26:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199811232226.OAA24221@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Random craches under heavy(?) disk activity In-Reply-To: <43337.911854048@zippy.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Nov 23, 1998 12:47:28 pm" To: jkh@zippy.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 14:26:53 -0800 (PST) Cc: rom_glsa@ein-hashofet.co.il, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Jordan K. Hubbard: > > I too have been experiencing random > > reboots, with no apparent reason. > > I see an apparent reason. Keep reading. > > > My machine is a Pentium 200Mhz overclocked to 233Mhz, > > Stop that. At least until your system is 100% stable and does not > exhibit any symptoms which can be clearly traced to software. > Jordan, First, I agree he should stop overclocking. But, there really is a *subtle* bug. I've 4 to 5 crashes, but I haven't been able to get a dump. I've created and deleted 100's of MB of files (e.g., several make worlds). Then, on a seeming idle system, simply reading email can cause the problem. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message