From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 11 12:41:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25481 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 12:41:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from indigo.ie (nsmart@ts01-18.waterford.indigo.ie [194.125.139.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25374 for ; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 12:41:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) Received: (from nsmart@localhost) by indigo.ie (8.8.8/8.8.7) id UAA06697; Sat, 11 Apr 1998 20:41:23 +0100 (IST) (envelope-from rotel@indigo.ie) From: Niall Smart Message-Id: <199804111941.UAA06697@indigo.ie> Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1998 20:41:23 +0000 In-Reply-To: Val "Reboots on zip" (Apr 11, 1:44pm) Reply-To: rotel@indigo.ie X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.6 beta(3) 11/17/96) To: Val , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reboots on zip Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Apr 11, 1:44pm, Val wrote: } Subject: Reboots on zip > It would run a whole bunch of programs fine (sendmail, dns, radius, etc), > but when i try to zip or gzip a big file (something like 400Mb) it would > reboot without writing a syslog entry :( The server has 128Mb of ram so I > was thinking is it possible that other programs just never get to the last > memory blocks and therefore do not experience problems? Sounds like bad RAM. Try swapping the SIMMS and seeing if it happens more often/with smaller files. Niall -- Niall Smart. Microsoft Suck. See www.freebsd.org for details. Annoy your enemies and amaze your friends: echo "#define if(x) if(!(x))" >> /usr/include/stdio.h To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message