On Apr 13, 7:52 pm, Tim Bradshaw <t...@tfeb.org> wrote:
> On 2007-04-13 17:48:41 +0100, kgmath...@gmail.com said:
>
> > Did you ever resolve this? I'm having exactly the same problem. The
> >x4100has powered itself off about five times already.
>
> No. We now have a case open with Sun (it's done it once more since
> then). If you mail me I can send you the ID on Monday and you could
> cross reference it. The engineer thinks it may be a thermal trip issue
> which is plausible except that the machine is completely idle when it
> dies so anything that might make it hot won't be (and it's in a
> decently cooled room). We're going to try VTS on Monday.
>

For what it's worth: we did try VTS and I can reliably kill the
machine in an hour or so (with identical symptoms to the original
mysterious death ones by running the CPU tests. Indications are that
it's some thermal issue. So I'd try VTS on it, run the CPU stress
tests with the number of instances set much higher than the default
(we're using 10, up from 2), and you might find something interesting.

--tim