Mysterious 60min reboot on net4501

[Harald Schmalzbauer]

Am Mittwoch, 17. März 2004 07:09 schrieb Bernd Walter:
> On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 06:53:30AM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > Am Mittwoch, 17. März 2004 00:35 schrieb Bernd Walter:
> > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 08:35:58PM +0100, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote:
> > > > Am Dienstag, 16. März 2004 20:29 schrieb Erik U.:
> > > > > Maybe something in the crontab that runs hourly and crashes your
> > > > > system.
> > > >
> > > > Cron doesn't run at all.
> > > >
> > > > If it only was that simple.....
> > >
> > > Maybe a too small power supply - current utilizes the CPU a bit more
> > > and therefor requires more power.
> > > At least -current never gave me such problems with soekris boards.
> >
> > You are right, ther also was a problem with the power supply but I had
> > replaced the old one by a 6V/2A model. I'm astonished about the 60 min
> > interval. What bug could caus this? Today I'll revert all the "newies"
> > like crypto hw/support aso.
>
> Why do you think it's a bug?
> Maybe some intervall loads the CPU more than the remaining time.
> The elan520 has a very load dependend power consumption.

Like I wrote it now can consume up to 2A which is much more than needed 
(mesured 810-850mA WITH HIFN, the old model only supplied 800mA)

> I don't know what happens special at 60min uptime - maybe something
> simple like named cache garbadge collection or so.
> The hifn chip consume a lot of power independend of beeing used or not,
> so removing kernel support for it won't help much.

I meant removing the Card itself of course. Not because the power consumption 
but to restore the working environment.

I'll find the reason.........

Thank you,

-Harry
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