Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 09:27:40 -0500 From: "Ben" <ben@cahostnet.com> To: <bmiele@auroraquanta.com>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: phantom reboot in 4.0 Message-ID: <004401c0a000$46660870$6102a00a@nhqadmin17> References: <Pine.BSO.4.10.10102250859290.20174-100000@mail2.auroraquanta.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 This may not have anything to do with FreeBSD. You may have a bad hardware. Start troubleshooting by moving your memory around or taking some out and see if that fixes your problem. Most of the time when a machine reboots by itself it mainly a hardware problem. But again I may be wrong. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad" <brad@auroraquanta.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Sunday, February 25, 2001 9:16 AM Subject: phantom reboot in 4.0 > Hi, > > apologies if this is some really stoopid thing that I am doing, but > I have been trying to figure it out for a while now. > > I have a box which appears to randomly reboot with no (really) > corresponding logfile messages. > > I am running: > 4.0-RELEASE on a dell poweredge 1300 with 256M and a single pIII > xeon 500Mhz. > > I have 4 drives, which include a 9G scsi, 2 30G IDE and 1 50G IDE > drives. > > The box does mainly storage of image files and is running: > > Apache w/mod_perl and php3 > MySQL > NetaTalk AppleTalk support > SSH > FTP > and some other sundry services. > > generally, the box just reboots at some odd hour when there is > really no load. Last night it did it at 4 am and then again at 7:40 > am EST. > > I have tried swapping out the RAM, thinking it might have been bad. > > One thing which may or may not be pertinent, is that I have never > seen the machine use any swap. I was wondering if there was a way > to test and make sure that it could. It seems like when I do a top > sometimes, the Free is alarmingly low with a large Inact block, and > no swap usage. I don't know how this would pertain though because > it usually takes a day or so for it to get like that and these > reboots can happen within hours of each other. > > I am sort of at a loss, and apologize again far all the important > stuff I am probably leaving out. > > > Brad > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Brad Miele > Technical Director > Aurora & Quanta Productions > bmiele@auroraquanta.com > > The end of man is to let the spirit in him permeate his whole > being, his soul, flesh, and affections. He attains his deepest > self by > losing his selfish ego. --Robert Musil > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>; iQA/AwUBOppn1Qht7rD8NlhDEQLxNwCgjw97F/8MRO5fQR5SFOnHtlulZCsAn28v GHY9pnoz97uq48mvgvh8ibyP =OJB2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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