[Asterisk-bsd] Asterisk Mashine Reboots itself.

[Chad Leigh -- Pengar Enterprises Inc]

chad Leigh wrote:
>> These sorts of things are usually but not always HW issues, like bad
>> RAM etc.  Reboots are not usually heat, which will usually cause a
>> lockup.  It could also be a low level kernel bug.

I should rather have said:  a low level bug that happens in the  
kernel, often in driver code executing in the kernel

Chad

>> If you happen to
>> see the console when it happens you may see something like "page
>> fault in kernel mode" type errors.  If you can trap the console
>> output, say out a serial port to another machine, that would help.
>> The other thing is to set up a dump file so that if the machine bug
>> checks and reboots itself, it writes out memory to the swap file and
>> then to a special dump file on reboot so that you can do a post
>> mortem with the debugger on the dump file when it comes back up.  To
>> do this you have to have a swap file at least as big as your RAM.
>> See the FreeBSD handbook for details on how to set this up
>>
>> Chad
>>