Having a console window open and checking it periodically can be very helpful. Such events will get logged to the console. I recently had a correctable event show up in mine. There's probably a way to have the events trigger an email if desired.
Have Fun! Reg --- On Sat, 1/19/13, Aurélien Larcher <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Aurélien Larcher <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OI Crash > To: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 12:30 PM > Hi, > Has someone mentioned using 'fmdump' ? > > With this tool I discovered that I had issues with an > unreliable disk > controller on my workstation with the consequence of OI > freezing approx. > every 2months. > In my case ZFS is getting the fault and standby until > resolution of the > issue, thus yielding an indefinite wait for disk I/O to > resume. > Best > > Aurelien > > > On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Reginald Beardsley > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > One time when I happened to look, I saw that the Ultra > 60 I used at work > > had been up for over 18 months. > > > > If a sys admin told me he wanted to reboot a system > once a week, "just in > > case" he'd be looking for a new job very soon or else > sent back to the PC > > support pool. > > > > BTW The reason that 11/780 era admins did not want to > shut machines down > > was primarily the problems posed by hundreds, if not > thousands of > > mechanical connectors some of which if allowed to cool > would lose contact. > > The cure was simple, but tedious, you went around > reseating circuit boards > > and cabling and powered up again. There are a lot of > boards and cables in a > > well populated 11/780 especially if its got an > FPS-120B, Gould-DeAnza > > graphics processor and a Versatec plotter attached > along w/ the usual disk > > and tape drives. > > > > One summer weekend in Dallas, my group moved across > town. So our > > workstations spent the day in a moving van probably at > 130+ F. Monday > > morning several would not boot until I went around and > reseated the disk > > drive cables. > > > > Voodoo has no place in computing. > > > > Have Fun! > > Reg > > > > _______________________________________________ > > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > > > > > > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > LARCHER Aurélien | > KTH, School of Computer Science and > Communication > Work: +46 (0) 8 790 71 42 | > Lindstedtsvägen 5, Plan 5 > Mob.: +46 (0) 7 09 46 40 17 | 100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Praise the Caffeine embeddings ... > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
