From owner-freebsd-security Mon Mar 3 13:13:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA28113 for security-outgoing; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 13:13:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from anugpo.anu.edu.au (anugpo.anu.edu.au [150.203.2.6]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA28098 for ; Mon, 3 Mar 1997 13:13:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from bohm.anu.edu.au (root@bohm.anu.edu.au [150.203.21.88]) by anugpo.anu.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.3) with SMTP id IAA10129 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 08:12:56 +1100 (EST) Received: from totoro by bohm.anu.edu.au (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA06914; Tue, 4 Mar 1997 08:12:50 +1100 Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970303081513.007018bc@student.anu.edu.au> X-Sender: s3080696@student.anu.edu.au (Unverified) X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 03 Mar 1997 08:15:17 +1000 To: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Security) From: James Seng Subject: Re: rebooting problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-security@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am running my 2.1.6-based server and it would reboot itself automatically every now and then. The server is a Pentium-166, 128Mb RAM, 512Mb swap (and with AHC2940 too..hmmm). The kernel is compiled to the minimum removing all unneccessary devices. I wrote some script to check on the system status every minute and it is found that the system is perfectly fine when it reboots. ie, the CPU load is less than 1, the free RAM is over 30Mb, the swap isnt even used! It just reboot out of the blue. On the other two 2.1.6-base server however (with a similar setup), which is less heavy on RAM, it doesnt appears to have this problem. Neither does it appears on my 2.1.5-base server. All three machines has the same hardware (right down the harddisk and monitor). Even the kernal config file used is the same.... It is driving me crazy *sigh* -James Seng At 06:22 AM 3/3/97 -0500, Security Administrator wrote: >A quick question: > >Every five to six days or so my 2.1.7-based system reboots. There doesn't seem to be ANYTHING present in the logs to explain this phenomena. Everything seems to be stable and then it suddenly reboots. > >If this is something that someone else has confronted, I would love to know how you mended the problems. > >My system is a P6-200 with an Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI-III controller, 128 Megs >of EDO mem, and 256 Megs of swap that has been evenly split between two >SCSI-III drives. I did have sound support compiled in at one point, but the >system was totally unstable. > >Josh Pincus >-- >System Security Administrator >Computer Interest Floor >University of Rochester >Rochester, NY 14627 >sadmin@roundtable.cif.rochester.edu > >