Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:15:08 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> To: Christopher Joyner <chris27wjoyner@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible hardware damaging bug with halt/reboot! Message-ID: <48B48E7C.5090407@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <85980.89311.qm@web56703.mail.re3.yahoo.com> References: <85980.89311.qm@web56703.mail.re3.yahoo.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Christopher Joyner wrote: | I think this thing could break my fan if I left it running. | The fan gets fast, really fast. Sounds like it's running faster than it can handle. | | This is using the halt command, during the message that say's, | HALTED, PRESS ANY KEY TO REBOOT. (not actual message) | | I am still looking in the source code hunting for this. | I decided it was best to report now. | | I have not seen the loop, but adding sleep(1) in the halt loop, such as a while loop, | I think that would make it easier on the cpu. However I do not know how it works, because I have not seen that source code. It's at sys/kern/tty_cons.c , line 586 and around. | In Love in Jesus Christ, Or Lord and Savior. | For God so loved the world, that he gave his only *begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. | --John 3:16 This problem of yours is not related to FreeBSD. Google for "psychosis". - -- Pietro Cerutti gahr@FreeBSD.org PGP Public Key: http://gahr.ch/pgp -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEAREKAAYFAki0jnsACgkQwMJqmJVx946d0ACgp3m0BBi+W2b/a7XYbwVRBAj2 ZFkAoORgyiex91TGDWr1eX0MMow/xwaJ =B0wA -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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