That's one way to keep Windows from crashing! lol =) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 1:00 PM Subject: RE: Win200 crashing with Tomcat 4
> I had a Win2K server that was rebooting periodically for no apparent reason. > > As it turns out, the problem was that the server had Automatic Recovery > turned on in the BIOS (Compaq, HP and Dell servers have this feature) and > disabling this feature stopped the inexplicable reboots. > > Check it out. > > Darrell > > -----Original Message----- > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, October 19, 2001 9:30 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Win200 crashing with Tomcat 4 > > > > > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Pae Choi wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 01:44:13 -0700 > > From: Pae Choi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: Win200 crashing with Tomcat 4 > > > > This is real scary if Janek's story is true. Could the TC dev. team > > confirm this? > > > > Since Janek is only "Testing" so it should not a big issue to > > produce the test cases Janek has. > > > > Tomcat by itself (i.e. stand-alone, with no "type 2" JDBC drivers or other > native code) is 100% pure Java. Java programs CANNOT cause a system > reboot (or even a core dump) unless there is a bug in the JVM. And even > then, the fact that you're getting a reboot is either a bug in your > operating system or a hardware problem. > > If you are using native code inside Tomcat (typically from a JDBC driver), > then it is entirely possible for bugs in that code to cause coredumps in > the JVM process -- but an OS that reboots is a faulty OS. I would start > with applying all of the recent patches to W2K Pro. > > > > > Pae > > > > Craig McClanahan >
