From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 20:05:16 -0600 From: "Russ Cox" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] *poof* In-Reply-To: <20060602222546.91d80400.20h@r-36.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5ce8487dc6f248eb0a494942a89bc125@cat-v.org> <000001c68658$5faa2cf0$de3c6a83@Fuji> <20060602222546.91d80400.20h@r-36.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5a0736c0-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > The machine which is plan9.bell-labs.com is rebooting > > continuously. There's not much can be done as there is no > > one there to figure out what's wrong or do anything about > > it (it has been having intermittent wedges for a while and > > we've been trying to track that down but this is something > > different). > > I had the same problem with ddr.9grid.de. It ran out of memory short > after cron was started. For now cron is turned off there, but that is > no real solution. I doubt that your problem is the same as ours. In ours, the machine was rebooting every five minutes because I wrote a shell script that, if the right error condition happened, would reboot the machine every five minutes using the HTTP interface to the UPS. And the error condition finally happened. Oops. Russ