A Sleeping FreeBSD Box.

Derek Ragona derek at computinginnovations.com
Mon Oct 30 12:23:48 UTC 2006


Check the BIOS power management settings.

         -Derek


At 03:54 AM 10/30/2006, nicky wrote:
>Hello all,
>
>I've got a 'weird' problem and i hope someone get point me in the right 
>direction to a proper solution.
>
>Somehow, i have no idea why, but my production server falls asleep. It has 
>happened twice now in the last week. When 'sleeping' the box doesn't 
>respond to any outside network related communication, like pinging, etc. 
>However, when i login through the console. It comes alive and responds to 
>everything again, just like normal. It even continues processes that were 
>running before it fell 'asleep', which is why i assume they are suspended 
>during nap time.
>
>The server has been up and running since August, never had any problems 
>with it before. I've checked all logs etc, so far i can't see anything as 
>to why it would fall asleep. I figured that even if there is such a thing 
>as hibernation on FreeBSD it would turn up in a log, but i've not seen it 
>so far.
>
>Does anyone have any idea's/hints on where to look??
>
>FreeBSD version is 6-Stable.
>
>
>Greetz,
>
>Nick
>
>
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