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Subject: Re: system frequently hangs, and most often automatically reboots  on daily basis.
In-Reply-To: <3.0b11.32.19960916034918.008f1100@islandia.is> from "Gestur A. Grjetarsson" at "Sep 16, 96 03:49:18 am"
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> Greetings,
> 
> 
> We are experiencing some drastic failures in our main server
> 
> wich is the main server for servicing the Internet to our dialup
> 
> account customers.
> 
> 
> The failure is in few words:
> 
> 
> The system frequently hangs, often it reboots automatically without
> 
> any notice or much workload.  We've been running the FreeBSD os in about
...

The number one hardware related failure that will cause these symptoms
is bad main memory.  Do you infact have 60nS memory in that system with
a P5/133, if not try that as a first hardware replacement.


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