Involuntary reboot log 6.7

Machine was getting slow, tried to reboot, got empty gray screen of death (mouse pointer still responsive). After waiting about 4 or 5 minutes, performed hard reset.

After a relatively poor start, this machine has been doing well, and is now up to a respectable 28.0 days average time between failures.

Statistics so far

• Failure type: hard reset
• OS version: 10.9.4
• Uptime at moment of failure: approximately 24 days
• Kernel panics: 1
• Hard resets: 6
• Total failures: 7
• Start of recording keeping: 21 January 2014
• Total days to date: 196 days
• Average time between failures: 28.0 days

Historical data

For comparison, previous generations of machines (from most oldest to most recent) that I’ve used have had averages of:

• 22.73 days (over 1,364 days)
• 20.06 (over 321 days)
• 19.11 (over 707 days)
• 41.86 (over 293 days); and:
• 2.0 days (over 2 days)