From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 14 18:36:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail3.lax.netzero.net (mail3.lax.netzero.net [209.0.233.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4F8615368 for ; Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:36:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brendonl@corp.netzero.net) Received: (qmail 10748 invoked by uid 0); 15 Jun 1999 01:36:39 -0000 Received: from corp.netzero.net (209.247.163.8) by mail3.lax.netzero.net with SMTP; 15 Jun 1999 01:36:39 -0000 Message-ID: <3765AE9A.9AB3BDFD@corp.netzero.net> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:38:34 -0700 From: Brendon Lloyd Organization: NetZero X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.1 i686) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon Doran Cc: Brendon Lloyd , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE reboots. References: <199906150107.TAA08960@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Nope, nothing logged at all. The machines are brand new, we bought them from the same place and they have the same hardware, we also have a few of these machines running linux with no difficulties. I suppose it could be the hardware, but it's doubtful. Jonathon Doran wrote: > > > I'm running three large ftp servers (300 users per server usually) on > > freebsd 3.1. The frequency of their reboots seems dependent on the load > > they're experiencing. > > Normally I'd say its too early for me to say anything. But the strangest > thing is that I may be seeing this on 3.2-RELEASE. Can't say what the problem > is yet. You didn't mention it, but is anything logged in /var/log/messages? > > In my case, the system has rebooted twice without logging a thing. This > machine has been running FreeBSD 24x7 since 2.0.5 (sometime in 1996), > except for those occasions when I've taken it down to move it or add > hardware. I'm still gathering data. > > When you see an unlogged reboot (looks like someone hit the reset switch), > one should think hardware problem. Too much heat, too little power, a > flakey motherboard... Have you added any new hardware lately? > > Jon Doran -- Brendon Lloyd [brendonl@corp.netzero.net] NetZero - Network Administrator ________________________________________________________ NetZero - We believe in a FREE Internet. Shouldn't you? Get your FREE Internet Access and Email at http://www.netzero.net/download/index.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message