From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 24 11:32:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EF5937B401 for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:32:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from apollo.laserfence.net (apollo.laserfence.net [196.44.69.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFC3043F3F for ; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 11:32:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@unfoldings.net) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18xXfw-0002nn-00; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:32:04 +0200 Received: from prometheus-p0.datel.laserfence.net ([192.168.255.1] helo=prometheus.home.laserfence.net) by apollo.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18xXfh-0002nZ-00; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:31:50 +0200 Received: from phoenix.home.laserfence.net ([192.168.0.2]) by prometheus.home.laserfence.net with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 18xXfc-0006Pw-00; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:31:44 +0200 Received: from will by phoenix.home.laserfence.net with local (Exim 4.10) id 18xXfb-000Fcp-00; Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:31:43 +0200 From: Willie Viljoen To: Steve Warwick , Subject: Re: Freebsd - restarting itself?! Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 21:31:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303242131.42852.will@unfoldings.net> X-Spam-Score: (/) X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *18xXfh-0002nZ-00*/DCQrTU3lV6* X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020422 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-22.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,PLING_QUERY,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,SIGNATURE_LONG_SPARSE,USER_AGENT autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a wild guess, but it might be due to kernel panics related to write caching (which is on by default since 4.6) Such a panic will happen when ever heavy disc load occurs. Try setting hw.ata.wc="0" in /boot/loader.conf and see if the problem goes away. Will On Monday 24 March 2003 21:20, someone, possibly Steve Warwick, typed: > Hi All, > > Is it possible for FreeBSD to shut itself down and restart for no reason? > > My machine was restarted last night and my hosting company claims they > did not touch the server or have any problems. This has been going of for > a few months now -- intermittent restarts that no one claims > responsibility for. > > This is a new machine with the latest OS (4.7) so I can't blame a faulty > power supply or something like -- I have more fans than Britney in the > server, for HD and CPU so I don't think it's a temp problem. > > > Thoughts, suggestions? > > TIA > > > Steve > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Willie Viljoen Freelance IT Consultant 214 Paul Kruger Avenue, Universitas Bloemfontein 9321 South Africa +27 51 522 15 60 +27 51 522 44 36 (after hours) +27 82 404 03 27 (mobile) will@unfoldings.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message