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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!netnews.upenn.edu!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!ivory.lm.com!not-for-mail From: peterb@telerama.lm.com (Peter Berger) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: Re: Hourly reboots - known bug? Date: 20 Jan 1995 20:40:58 -0500 Organization: Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh, PA USA Lines: 31 Message-ID: <3fpona$q7b@ivory.lm.com> References: <3fm0a7$gls@ivory.lm.com> <3fmsuc$s1d@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ivory.lm.com In article <3fmsuc$s1d@agate.berkeley.edu>, Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@violet.berkeley.edu> wrote: >In article <3fm0a7$gls@ivory.lm.com>, >Peter Berger <peterb@telerama.lm.com> wrote: >>I'm running FreeBSD 2.0-Release. >> >>When left to it's own devices overnight, under no load whatsoever, my >>machine cheerily and happily reboots itself spontaneously once per hour, >>plus or minus five minutes to the top of the hour. > >This is bizarre. Needless to say, I can't say that I've encountered >anything like it. Sure, it's possible to panic a 2.0R system (rather easily, >in fact! :-) but not in a no-load-whatsoever situation. This (thankfully) turned out to be a hardware problem; swapping out the motherboard fixed the problem. The only reason I thought it might have been software related was the eerie predictability of it -- every 66 minutes, boom. Anyone feel like swapping disk/CPU benchmarks between FreeBSD, NetBSD and BSDI? I've got them all installed for testing, and am curious if my experiences dovetail with others'. This is more to discover the peculiarities (and there seem to be many :-) of my hardware than to seriously compare OS's, since in the real world one runs applications, and not benchmarks. -- ...................................................................... Peter G. Berger, Esq. Telerama Public Access Internet, Pittsburgh Internet: peterb@telerama.lm.com Phone: 412/481-3505 Fax: 412/481-8568 http://www.lm.com/~peterb