From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 10:08:22 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A12E21065672 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:08:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gahr@FreeBSD.org) Received: from cpanel03.rubas-s03.net (cpanel03.rubas-s03.net [195.182.222.73]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F6CF8FC26 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:08:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gahr@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [213.142.183.219] (helo=gahrtop.localhost) by cpanel03.rubas-s03.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KY7lP-0003tx-Nw; Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:15:51 +0200 Message-ID: <48B48E7C.5090407@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:15:08 +0200 From: Pietro Cerutti Organization: The FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (X11/20080807) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Joyner References: <85980.89311.qm@web56703.mail.re3.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <85980.89311.qm@web56703.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=9571F78E; url=http://gahr.ch/pgp/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - cpanel03.rubas-s03.net X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - freebsd.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - FreeBSD.org X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible hardware damaging bug with halt/reboot! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:08:22 -0000 -----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-----