Sudden Reboots

[David Scheidt]

On Oct 1, 2004, at 7:23 PM, Jim Durham wrote:
> These are very rare.... except they seem to happen about once a day 
> for a
> while and then stop... very strange..
>
>> and usually caused by hardware problems (e.g. faulty power supply,
>> overheating CPU, bad RAM).
>
> Possible, but if so, the hardware fixed itself on the first two boxes I
> mentioned.

All of this can be bad, or not quite bad -- just not healthy -- 
hardware.  Say a power supply that can't supply reliable +5, when the 
line voltage drops a tad while all the disks are being hammered.  It 
can be a nightmare to figure out.  Setup crash dumps, but also make 
sure that the UPS the box is attached to isn't having problems.  If 
it's not on conditioned power, fix  that.