Re: Uptimes on Portmasters

Jake (jake@ams.com)
Tue, 8 Apr 1997 12:00:30 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 8 Apr 1997, Ilia Zubkov wrote:

>
> Lucky guys you are - ~300 days of uptime!
> Actually I wonder if anybody has an uptime
> of 50 days for a PM-2ER-30 running ComOS 3.5?
>
> My problem is that one of my Portmasters (PM-2ER-30) reboots every 3-15 days.
> Could anyone please tell me why this happens?

I have noticed a few poeple saying this. I have PM 2's that have been up
running com-os for prolly 3 months now without a reboot.

> and we had a terrible night formatting flash file system, netbooting
> ComOS 3.3.3 image and then upgrading to ComOS 3.5 again.

Hrm, perhaps you should RE-flash your box?

> The next day after the impressive upgrade we noticed PM rebooting every
> 10-20 hours. Than we upgraded its memory from 1Mb to 4Mb inspite of
> Livingston instructions declared 1Mb is enough for our configuration (no
> ISDN, no OSPF and so on). We were lucky for some time when the problem

Are you running raideus?

> disappeared. Several days has passed and we noticed the PM still keeps
> rebooting from time to time. So the problem is still unsloved.

Does it seem to get HOT at all? Have you made sure the rom is seated well
and the ram is in there good?

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