Greetings, everyone;
I'm pleased to have been able to be silent on this list for a long
time. I haven't had any problems worth bothering you all with... until
just now.
I have a machine (AxpPCI-33/NoName) running DEC Unix 3.2D-1
that has been performing flawlessly for a year. It has 128 MB of ECC
RAM, around 3.6GB of space in 3 SCSI disks, and is working as a web
server.
It has just starting crashing about once a week with the following
error:
----- EVENT INFORMATION -----
EVENT CLASS ERROR EVENT
OS EVENT TYPE 100. CPU EXCEPTION
SEQUENCE NUMBER 4.
OPERATING SYSTEM DEC OSF/1
OCCURRED/LOGGED ON Mon Dec 1 01:07:27 1997
OCCURRED ON SYSTEM Willow
SYSTEM ID x0004000B
SYSTYPE x00000000
----- UNIT INFORMATION -----
UNIT CLASS CPU
I just tell it to boot again at the console prompt, and all is fine.
I was afraid that this was because the CPU was getting too hot (we
have some funny airflow problems in our machine room) but I've had a very
large fan pointed at it for a week and a half now and it still crashes.
Can I have run the CPU through its entire useful life already?
Is there anything I can do to further narrow the cause of the crash?
I get paged for each crash, so I do know to come and reboot the machine, but
it's getting hard to get up at 2:00AM. :-)
Thanks for any information/help in advance,
Erik
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Erik Green Chief Engineer, Internet Connections Inc.
erik_at_mnic.net
Received on Mon Dec 01 1997 - 17:40:42 NZDT